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18-11-2025
TRIPOLI: At least four people were killed when two boats carrying 95 irregular migrants capsized off the Libyan coastal city of Al Khums on Thursday, the Libyan Red Crescent said on Saturday.
The first boat was carrying 26 migrants from Bangladesh, four of whom died, the Red Crescent said in a statement on its verified Facebook page.
The second boat carried 69 migrants, including two Egyptians and dozens of Sudanese, the Red Crescent added without specifying their fate.
Khums is a coastal city, some 118 km east of the capital, Tripoli.
On Wednesday, the International Organization for Migration said that at least 42 migrants went missing and presumed dead after a rubber boat sank near the Al Buri oilfield, an offshore facility north-northwest of the Libyan coast.
Libya has become a transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to Europe across the Mediterranean since the fall in 2011 of Dictator Muammar Gaddafi during a NATO-backed uprising.
Pictures released by the Khums Red Crescent showed a line of bodies in black plastic bags laid out on the floor, while the volunteers are seen providing first aid to the survivors.
Other pictures show the rescued migrants wrapped in thermal blankets sitting on the floor.
The statement added that Coast Guards and Khums Port Security Agency participated in the rescue operation. Adding that the bodies were handed over to the relevant authorities based on instructions by the city’s public prosecution.
In mid-October, a group of 61 bodies of migrants were recovered on the coast west of the capital Tripoli. In September, IOM said at least 50 people had died after a vessel carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught fire off Libya’s coast.
Several states including Britain, Spain, Norway and Sierra Leone urged Libya last week at a UN meeting in Geneva to close detention centers where rights groups say migrants and refugees have been tortured, abused and sometimes killed.
On Wednesday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that at least 42 migrants went missing and were presumed dead after a rubber boat sank near the Al Buri oilfield, an offshore facility north-northwest of the Libyan coast.
In mid-October, a group of 61 bodies of migrants were recovered on the coast west of Tripoli. In September, IOM said at least 50 people had died after a vessel carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught fire off Libya’s coast.
Several states, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Norway and Sierra Leone, urged Libya last week at a United Nations meeting in Geneva to close detention centers where rights groups say migrants and refugees have been tortured, abused and sometimes killed.
Meanwhile, seven men have survived being lost at sea for six days after their dinghy capsized in the Mediterranean, with 42 people presumed dead, the International Organization for Migration has said.
Citing survivors, the UN agency said the rubber vessel, carrying 47 men and two women, capsized on 3 November, six hours after departing the coastal Libyan town of Zuwara.
The death take the death toll in the Central Mediterranean route past 1,000 this year, according to the latest data from IOM’s Missing Migrants Project.
The seven survivors are from Sudan, Nigeria, Cameroon and Somalia, the IOM said in a statement.
They were stranded for six days and found after Libyan authorities carried out a rescue mission near al-Buri Oil Field on Sunday. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
