CAIRO—A migrant boat has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving at least 35 people dead or presumed dead, the U.N. migration agency said Saturday.
The shipwreck took place Friday off the western Libyan city of Sabratha, a major launching point for the mainly African migrants making the voyage across the Mediterranean, said the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The IOM said the bodies of six migrants were pulled out while 29 others were missing and presumed dead. It was not immediately clear what caused the wooden boat to capsize.
Friday’s tragedy was the second shipwreck off Libya in less than a week with a total of at least 53 Europe-headed migrants dead or presumed dead, according to the IOM.
…