Migrants, shipwreck off the coast of Libya. The Marina: "There are surely drownings"

Another shipwreck and other deaths in the Mediterranean. UNHCR Libya denounces another tragedy of the sea: 63 people are missing after the overthrow of the boat that they were crossing. Another 41 people were rescued by the coast guard off the coast of Zwara, reports the UN agency on his Twitter profile. The spokesman of the Libyan Navy, Ayob Amr Ghasem, confirmed that there was a "surely" sinking with drownings off the Libyan coast. "There are several boats and one was in critical condition, surely there are some dead," said Ghasem all 'Asa.

In the meantime, the Libyan Coast Guard made two other recoveries of migrants who were on canoes off the west coast for a total of 220 people, all the "different African nationalities". The first intervention conducted by patrolman Talil "on the night of Saturday to Sunday" involved 115 migrants whose canoe was 8-10 miles north of Sorman. The second, made by the same boat "set at dawn", saved 105 people including "two children and 10 women" 10 miles north of Sabrata.
In both cases the migrants, after having received a "humanitarian and medical aid" in Zauia, were entrusted "to the Al Nasr reception center", specify the posts.

Christine Petrè, spokesperson for IOM Libya, the International Organization for Migration, tells ANSA agency that would be more than ten thousand migrants rescued or stranded by the Libyan Coast Guard locked up in 20 detention centers in extreme conditions, between overcrowding structures and the heat wave that in the country records temperatures of more than 40 degrees. "The last official figure published about a month ago by the government was 7,000," said the spokesman, without wishing to unbalance the more recent figures on the number of migrants currently in the centers. However "considering that we have had a large number of migrants" reported on the ground "and at this moment there are two other operations of" recovery ", we are probably talking about 3000 in the last two weeks," he said . "Naturally q this will lead to an increase in migrants and centers will be overcrowded ," he added, answering questions about living conditions in the structures. "When a very narrow space is overcrowded, it has an impact on the living conditions" which "are not already very good: you can imagine now, that there is a heat wave in Tripoli with temperatures of 35-40 degrees. "" All of these factors will have a negative impact on the living conditions and this worries us a lot, "said spokesman for the United Nations Migrant Agency.

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