UN Migration Agency: 74 Drown After Boat Capsizes Near Libya

At least 74 migrants drowned after their Europe-bound ship capsized off the coast of Libya on Thursday.
UN Migration Agency: 74 Drown After Boat Capsizes Near Libya
In these photos taken Nov. 12, 2020, life jackets litter the beach off the coast of Libya near the port of al-Khums. Hussein Ben Mosa/ IOM 2020 via AP
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CAIRO—At least 74 migrants drowned after their Europe-bound ship capsized off the coast of Libya on Thursday, the U.N.’s migration agency said, in the latest in a series of at least eight shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean since last month.

The boat was carrying over 120 migrants, including women and children, when it capsized off the coast of the Libyan port of al-Khums, said the International Organization for Migration.