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Twenty migrants drown in Libya shipwreck, fourth accident this week

Twenty migrants drown in Libya shipwreck, fourth accident this week

EMMA FARGE  TWENTY African migrants are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya when their boat sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, while more bodies washed ashore on Libyan beaches on Friday from a shipwreck earlier this week. The latest shipwreck, a wooden boat that left from Surman in western Libya, is the fourth this week and brings the total death toll to more than 100 people, an International Organization for Migration spokeswoman said. Some of the survivors were from Nigeria, Gambia, Ghana and Burkina Faso. ​ Elsa Laino of Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF)…
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