Death Toll Reaches 64 After Migrants’ Dinghy Sinks in Mediterranean
On Sunday, 270 other migrants were rescued by the Libyan Coast Guard, probably from more than one dinghy, according to Mr. Di Giacomo.
The deaths on Saturday focused attention on the dangerous central Mediterranean crossing between Libya
and Italy, where most of those deaths took place, and they prompted calls from the United Nations migration agency for a comprehensive policy to address the humanitarian crisis.
JAN. 8, 2018
Footage of the rescue operations on Saturday, taken by rescuers from the Italian Coast
Guard, shows dozens of people desperately clinging to a partly deflated rubber dinghy.
JAN. 8, 2018
Mr. Di Giacomo said smugglers must be held accountable for their role in the deaths.
8, 2018
At least 64 people drowned in the Mediterranean Sea this weekend after the overcrowded
rubber dinghy they were traveling on sank off the coast of Libya.
According to survivor accounts collected by the United Nations agency, smugglers
had packed more than 150 people onto a flimsy rubber dinghy on the Libyan coast.