At least 7 dead as Libya tanker rescues over 100 migrants

September 19, 2015 01:44

At least seven bodies were recovered, including a child, and four pregnant women were listed as missing, as an oil tanker rescued 102 migrants from the Mediterranean off Tripoli today.

"We were some 22 nautical miles northeast of Tripoli when at around 9 am (0700 GMT) we spotted...a group of people in the water," said Mohammed al-Kone, an officer on board a Libyan oil tanker.

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