150 Migrants Feared Dead After Boats Capsize Off Libya Coast

150 Migrants Feared Dead After Boats Capsize Off Libya Coast
Rescued migrants sit on a coast some 60 miles east of Tripoli, Libya, on July 25, 2019. Hazem Ahmed/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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CAIRO—Up to 150 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, were missing and feared drowned on July 25 after the boats they were traveling in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the country’s coast guard and the U.N. refugee agency said.

A top U.N. official described the shipwreck as “the worst Mediterranean tragedy” so far this year.