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184 migrants already rescued at sea off Libyan coast in 2017: IOM Libya

bySami Zaptia
January 6, 2017
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184 migrants already rescued at sea off Libyan coast in 2017: IOM Libya

184 migrants have already been rescued at sea off the Libyan coast, IOM Libya reports (Photo: IOM Libya).

By Sami Zaptia.

184 migrants have already been rescued at sea off the Libyan coast, IOM Libya reports (Photo: IOM Libya).
184 migrants have already been rescued at sea off the Libyan coast, IOM Libya reports (Photo: IOM Libya).

London, 6 January 2017:

The International Organization for Migration Libya (IOM) has reported that already, 184 migrants have been rescued at sea off the Libyan coast. The migrants were rescued in two separate operations. In 2016 a total of 18,904 were rescued off the Libyan coast.

Between 17 December 2016 and 6 January 2017 a total of 366 were rescued and 10 bodies were retrieved at sea.

Off the western city of Zawia, 62 were rescued on 23 December (56 men and 6 women) and five bodies were retrieved from sea.

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A total of 65 were rescued off the capital Tripoli (60 men and 5 women) and five bodies were retrieved on 4 January this year.

Meanwhile, 120 were rescued off Khoms (71 men and 49 women) on 22 December and another 119 (87 men, 26 women and 6 children) were rescued on 2 January this year.

In 2016, there were a total of 181,436 migrant arrivals by sea recorded in Italy from the Libyan coast and a total of 4,576 deaths at sea.

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