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Migrants, shipwreck off the coast of Libya. Ocean Viking: “Victims could be 120”

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A stock photo of migrants rescued by the Sea Watch (Ansa)

Rome, April 22, 2021 – A massacre of migrants following a shipwreck off the coasts of the Libya. According to the ship’s crew Ocean Viking, we have lost track of 130 people aboard a rubber dinghy that had attempted the crossing in prohibitive sea conditions. There was no news of the dinghy when it was in the tidal zone northeast of Tripoli. Thirteen corpses have so far been sighted at sea but it has not been possible to recover them. Dozens of migrants are missing, and, according to reports from Sos Mediterranee, it is feared that they have drowned. It could be 120 victims as reported to the breaking latest news by humanitarian sources. “We arrived at the scene too late,” they said.

“We saw at least ten bodies” and “no survivors”. The crew of Ocean Viking, a Sos Mediterranee ship, recounts the scenario they faced when they arrived at the site of the shipwreck. “Today – continues the NGO – after hours of research, our worst fear has come true. The crew of the Ocean Viking had to witness the devastating consequences of the sinking of a rubber dinghy north-east of Tripoli. Wednesday morning had taken off. alarm with respect to this same boat with about 130 people on board “.




Yesterday another boat, on board of which there were about 100 migrants, was brought back to Libya. A woman and a child died in that episode. “We are heartbroken. We think of the lives – underlines the crew of Ocean Viking – that have been lost and of the families who may never be sure of what has happened to their loved ones”.

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