By Libya Herald reporter.
Tripoli, 13 April 2017:
There are fears that some 97 people have drowned off Tripoli in the latest Mediterranean migrant tragedy.
The coastguard managed to rescue 23 people this morning after their boat got into difficulties and sank. Informed by radio about the incident, the service launched a rescue oepration and found the survivors, all men, clinging to wreckage some ten kilometres off Gargaresh, the west Tripoli suburb o
However, coastguard spokesman Ayoub Qassem told Reuters that they had reported that some 120 people had been on board the inflatable vessel, including 15 women and five children.
So far no bodies have been found. Qassem was quoted by another agency saying that bad weather had prevented a search for the victims although, un Tripoli, the weather was sunny and fine.
The migrants are believed to have left from Janzour, west of Gargaresh.
