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Al-Hmidiya (Libya) (AFP) – Three babies died off the coast of Libya on Friday while 100 people are still missing in the latest sinking of Mediterranean migrants while European leaders have found a safe haven.
According to the survivors taken to Al-Hmidiya, east of the capital Tripoli, about 120 migrants were on board the inflatable boat.
Only 16 were rescued, while the missing included two infants and three children under 12.
Survivors who returned to Libyan soil recounted their ordeal after their departure before Garaboulli's dawn , east of Tripoli.
During the trip, there was an explosion on board, after which the engine caught fire. The ship began to take water, they told AFP
The passengers included several Moroccan families, none of which survived, as well as Syrians and Sudanese, have they said. , I've refused to ride b We learned that we would be 20 (passengers), "said survivor Amri Swileh, of Yemen.
Showing his bruised arms, the 26-year-old said that smugglers had threatened to shoot him and forced him
"I saw people burn," he said.
"I lost all my Yemeni friends who were with me.
While there were up to 15 women on board, the 16 passengers rescued were all young men.
Another survivor, Bakari Badi, said at the beginning of the trip that a man fell into the water.
"People were telling the captain to go back to Libya, but then our engine exploded. "The world was killed" –
The sinking occurred after the leaders of the European Union had reached an agreement to more equitably share responsibility for the reception of migrants.
EU President Donald Tusk warned that there was no guarantee that it would work, while France and Austria excluded themselves from the EU. 39, reception of migrant centers.
Libyan coastguards ill-equipped forced By a Coast Guard captain, Salem al-Qadhi said he was shocked when his ship reached the site.
"It was horrible to abandon most of the bodies of the migrants who died in the sinking of Friday.
Kobrem, a 17-year-old survivor, said that he had hung on a rope attached to the wrecked ship for two hours. until the arrival of the rescuers [19659022] "Each of the other survivors hung something, mostly empty containers," added the teenager, who said he paid smugglers around 400 dollars (340 euros) for the crossing. There were other rescues off the coast of Garabulli on Friday, with 345 migrants rescued from three boats, said Navy spokesman General Ayoub Kacem
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On 18 June, five bodies were found and more than 100 people were rescued after being wrecked off the coast of Libya.
Nearly 1,000 migrants were rescued on June 24 The agreement reached between EU leaders during the night provides for the establishment of secure centers in Europe to deal with requests for safe havens. arrival of arrivals, but cracks are already beginning The Brussels Treaty also proposes the establishment of "landing platforms" outside the EU in order to reduce the number of people who undertake the perilous journey. Wed.
Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar on Friday rejected any foreign military presence in the south of the country to stem the migration.
Haftar heads the self-denomination of the Libyan National Army, which controls much of eastern Libya and supports a parallel government that challenges authority. of the UN-backed national unity government in Tripoli.
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