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A migrants’ rubber boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, 10 found dead
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ATLANTIC OCEAN, 23 April, 2021 (TON): A boat packed with migrants has been found turned turtle in the Mediterranean Sea, 10 dead bodies found floating near the capsized rubber boat.
The boat was believed to have been carrying 130 people, the French humanitarian organization SOS Mediterranean said.
On Friday, the spokesman for SOS Mediterranean Sea said, another wooden boat was still missing with about 40 migrants aboard.
On Wednesday, the civil hotline Alarm Phone had reported three boats were in distress, prompting SOS Mediterranean to launch a search "in very rough seas, with up to 6-metre waves", the non-government organization said.
When Ocean Viking arrived on the scene it did not find any survivors but there were ten bodies in the water nearby.
However, as it is known already that conflict-ridden Libya is a major route for migrants seeking to reach Europe that has caused more than 350 deaths in the Central Mediterranean.
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