ROME —The Italian coast guard said on Saturday nearly a hundred people were missing after a boat with migrants sank off the Libyan coast. Four people have been saved, and they say 107 migrants were onboard the boat in all,” the agency’s press office said. A Frontex plane and an Italian naval helicopter also joined the operation. According to the Italian interior ministry, over 180,000 migrants landed in Italy last year, an annual record. The U.N. has said more than 5,000 people died in 2016 trying to cross the Mediterranean, most of them on the Libya-Italy route.

Source: Libya Today January 14, 2017 22:00 UTC