The lifeless bodies of 15 people were recovered in these hours off the Libyan coast. This is a part of migrants who traveled on two boats that were reported as shipwrecked by the Alarm Phone. 177 survivors, some of them have been entrusted to doctors for their conditions.
From what has been reconstructed so far, they had departed from Zuara and Al Khoms, UNHCR specified.
This year, underlines the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on the "central Mediterranean route", the one that leads from Libya to Italy, there have been 474 deaths and 689 missing compared to the 381 deaths and 597 missing persons of the whole 2020. The migrants brought back to Libya up to 9 October were 26,314.
(Unioneonline / ss)
