Jan 19, 2019 – Scores of migrants were feared missing off the Libyan coast, the IOM said Saturday after the Italian navy flew three survivors to the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. That meant “there would be 117 missing, including 10 women and a 10-month-old baby,” IOM Italia said in comments posted on Twitter. Earlier the Italian navy said that three migrants had died and about 15 remained missing, after it staged a rescue operation in the Mediterranean. The IOM said that most of the migrants were from Cameroon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Sudan. A Red Crescent spokesman meanwhile said 16 bodies had been found on the beaches of the Libyan city of Sirte between January 2 and 15.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 20, 2019 23:26 UTC