At least 42 migrants presumed dead after boat capsizes off Libya, says UN

A vessel carrying migrants capsized disconnected the seashore of Libya past week, with 42 radical missing and presumed dead, the U.N. migration bureau said

CAIRO -- At slightest 42 radical are missing and presumed dormant aft a vessel carrying migrants capsized disconnected the seashore of Libya past week, the U.N.'s migration bureau said connected Wednesday.

Seven survivors person been located aft the vessel's motor failed successful precocious waves astatine astir dawn connected Nov. 3, respective hours aft it departed Zuwara, a coastal metropolis northwestern Libya, the International Organization for Migration, oregon IOM, said.

The survivors were stranded for six days and recovered aft Libyan authorities carried retired a rescue ngo adjacent al-Buri Oil Field connected Saturday.

The rubber vessel was said to person been carrying 47 men and 2 women. The missing see 29 Sudanese, 8 Somalis, 3 Cameroon nationals, and 2 radical from Nigeria.

The IOM said it has provided urgent aesculapian care, h2o and nutrient to the survivors, who person been taken to Tripoli wherever they are said to beryllium successful a unchangeable information aft suffering sunburn and tegument irritation from seawater.

Libya has been a main transit constituent for migrants fleeing warfare and poorness successful Africa and the Middle East. The state has plunged into chaos pursuing a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime autocrat Moammar Gadhafi successful 2011.

Last month, a migrant woody vessel that departed al-Zawiya successful northwestern Libya capsized owed to precocious waves, with the nonaccomplishment of 18 people, according to IOM. Another 64 radical from Sudan, Bangladesh and Pakistan survived.

The latest shipwreck adds to the rising decease toll successful the Central Mediterranean, wherever much than 1,000 radical person died since the opening of 2025, including implicit 500 mislaid disconnected the seashore of Libya, according to the IOM’s Missing Migrants Project.

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