Two dozen migrants are believed to have drowned after their boat capsized off the Libyan coast in the night from Sunday to Monday. Two dozen migrants trying to cross from Libya to Europe on a rubber dinghy presumably drowned after their boat capsized Sunday night, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. The third boat, however, had presumably capsized, IOM spokesperson Safa Msehli said at a briefing in Geneva on Tuesday. Survivors of the capsized boat as well as the intercepted migrants from the two intact boats were taken to a detention center in the Libyan capital Tripoli. During the civil war, which has been ravaging the country since 2014, turmoil in western Libya adversely affected migrants in the country.

Source: The North Africa Journal September 16, 2020 10:52 UTC