CAIRO— A boat carrying Egyptian migrants capsized off Libya’s coast, leaving two people dead and 19 more missing and presumed dead, the Libyan agency that combats illegal migration said Monday, in the latest migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea.
The boat was carrying 27 migrants and was found over the weekend off the northeastern town of Tolmeitha, around 110 kilometers (68 miles) east of Benghazi, the Department for Combating Illegal Migration said.
The agency said in a statement that at least six migrants survived the shipwreck. Two bodies were retrieved while 19 others remained missing and presumed dead, it said.
A video posted on the agency’s Facebook page showed rescuers providing drinking water to an exhausted survivor….