A minimum of 20 lifeless, dozen lacking as boat carrying 100 migrants capsizes off Italian coast
Sixty survivors have been delivered to a centre in Lampedusa, stated a UNHCR spokesman in Italy, Filippo Ungaro.
Rome:
A minimum of 20 folks lifeless and dozen went lacking as a ship carrying 100 migrants capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the UN refugee company stated Wednesday.
Sixty survivors have been delivered to a centre in Lampedusa, stated a UNHCR spokesman in Italy, Filippo Ungaro.
As per the survivor accounts, there have been 92 to 97 migrants on board when the boat departed Libya. Authorities have recovered 20 our bodies, and had been trying to find one other 12 to 17 survivors, in keeping with the UNHCR.
(With inputs from AP)
