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At least two migrants die, 25 missing in boat accident off Libyan coast
[AlAhram] At least two migrants colonists died and around 25 others were missing after their inflatable boat capsized off the western Libyan coast, a front man for the coastguard said on Sunday.

A total of 73 migrants colonists were picked up by a coastguard patrol about 14 miles off Qarabulli town, some 49 km (30.5 miles) east of the capital Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, front man Ayoub Qassem said.

The bodies of a woman and a child were recovered, he added.

The migrants colonists included 40 men, 25 women and eight children from Sudan, Kenya, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.

"A wrecked and inflatable boat was found without an engine and the illegal migrants colonists were found clinging to it," Qassem said.

According to the UN migration agency IOM, 2,297 migrants colonists died or went missing in the Mediterranean last year out of a total of 116,959 people who reached Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
by sea.

Libya's western coast has become a main departure point for migrants colonists as smugglers exploit the county's chaos since the toppling of Muammar Qadaffy
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...
 in 2011.

But since July 2017, smuggling networks inside Libya have been disrupted under an Italian-backed deal with local authorities in a former smuggling hub of Sabratha town in western Libya.

The coasties has stepped up patrols after receiving new boats from Italia as part of efforts by the right-wing government there to stop migrants colonists reaching Italian shores from Africa.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-06-03
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