The testimonies also echoed previous accounts that the steel-hulled trawler sank in calm seas during a botched attempt to tow it. “The Greek ship cast a rope and it was tied to our bows,” survivor Abdul Rahman Alhaz said in his sworn testimony. Being in the hold, he had no first-hand account of why the ship sank and said there were no women and children in his section below decks. By the time the ship sank, they had been at sea for five days. “In the pulling, (the trawler) sank,” he said.

Source: Libya Today June 20, 2023 20:11 UTC