Thanks to the help of a fishing boat, around 37 survivors, mainly from Senegal, Mali, Chad and Ghana, were rescued.
Last Wednesday a boat chartered by mafias sank off the west coast of Libya. The terrible event left at least 75 deaths of migrants who tried to cross the Mediterranean and reach the shores of Europe, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported today.
The event has become one of the worst shipwrecks of 2021, although thanks to the help of a fishing boat, around 37 survivors, mainly from Senegal, Mali, Chad and Ghana, were rescued by local fishermen and later detained upon landing, They informed the IOM staff of this. However, 45 other people, including five children, are known to have been killed when the ship’s engine exploded off the coast of Zwara.
According to sources, the sunken boat was one of the three that are known to have they went out on Tuesday night of the beaches that stretch between Zawara and Zawiya, the base of the different Libyan mafias that, connected with others in the region, profit from smuggling weapons, fuel and people.
On Wednesday, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) revealed that Libyan patrol boats intercepted a total of 307 people trying to travel to Italy in similar irregular vessels the night before and returned them to port in Tripoli despite Libya being considered “an unsafe country”. (I)
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