November_2016_Libya_migrant_shipwrecks

November 2016 Libya migrant shipwrecks

November 2016 Libya migrant shipwrecks

Maritime incidents in Libya

On November 3, 2016, around 240 people were killed in two migrant boat capsizing incidents off the coast of Libya. Twenty-nine people survived the first wreck, with about 120 deaths reported. Only two people survived the second wreck, and again around 120 deaths were reported.[1] Another one hundred people are believed to have drowned off the coast when their boat sank after they were abandoned off Libya without a motor on 17 November. Twenty-seven survivors have been transported to Italy. An estimated 4,700 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in 2016.[2]

Libyan coastland.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Up to 240 dead in migrant shipwreck off Libya: UNHCR".
  2. [2]
    Kingsley, Patrick (17 November 2016). "100 people feared drowned as boat sinks off Libya". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 November 2016.


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