More than 70 missing after migrant boat capsizes in Mediterranean

More than 70 missing after migrant boat capsizes in Mediterranean
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At least 70 people went missing on Saturday after a migrant boat overturned in the Mediterranean, Anadolu Agency reported citing an Italian NGO.

Mediterranea Saving Humans announced on US social media platform X that 32 survivors and two bodies were recovered from the shipwreck while over 70 went missing.

According to the source, a wooden vessel carrying about 105 women, men, and children, which had set sail from Tajoura fleeing Libya, capsized in the SAR (search and rescue) zone under Libyan control.

Survivors disembarked and the bodies recovered arrived early Sunday on Italy’s southern island of Lampedusa.

Officials confirmed another 70 people are missing at sea.

“This latest shipwreck is not a tragic accident, but the result of European governments’ policies, which refuse to open safe and legal entry channels,” the NGO added.