The UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced on Wednesday that 42 people, mostly Sudanese, are presumed dead after a migrant boat sank earlier this month off the Libyan coast.
According to survivor accounts, the vessel—carrying 47 men and two women—departed Zuwara, in northwestern Libya, at around 3 a.m. on November 3.
The IOM said that Libyan authorities launched a search and rescue operation on November 8 after the inflatable boat, which had left the coast five days earlier, was reported missing.
“After drifting at sea for six days, only seven men—four Sudanese, two Nigerians, and one Cameroonian—were rescued,” the agency said, adding that 42 people remain missing and are presumed dead.
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