Hundreds feared dead as boat sinks off Libya

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: Al Jazeera

A boat filled with up to 250 migrants heading for Europe has sunk off the Libyan coast and many passengers have died, a spokesman for the Libyan navy has said.

Only 26 people have been rescued after the boat sunk near Tajoura, east of the capital Tripoli, said navy spokesman Ayub Qassem.

"There are so many dead bodies floating in the sea," Qassem told the Reuters news agency, adding that the under-equipped coastguard had few resources to search for survivors.
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Qassem said the migrants on the capsized boat were mostly Africans.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/09/hundreds-feared-dead-as-boat-sinks-off-libya-2014914214519526526.html

[merrily]

1. Horrible.

How very desperate they must have been.

[shenmue]

2. Awful

[GeorgeGist]

3. kandr

for exposure.