Boat With 86 Migrants Capsizes Off Tunisia

The U.N. migration agency says a boat carrying 86 migrants from Libya sank in the Mediterranean overnight, and just four people on board survived.
Boat With 86 Migrants Capsizes Off Tunisia
Migrants on a ship intercepted offshore on June 24, 2018, near the town of Gohneima, east of Tripoli, Libya. Libyan Coast Guard/File Photo via AP
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CAIRO—The U.N. migration agency says a boat carrying 86 migrants from Libya sank in the Mediterranean overnight, and just four people on board survived, with 82 missing.

Some of the four survivors told the Tunisian coast guard on Thursday, July 4, that the boat had sunk off the town of Zarzis, Red Crescent official Mongi Slim told Reuters.