‘More than 200 dead” in migrant shipwrecks

More than 200 migrants are believed drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, migration officials say. The UN refugee agency was told the news by survivors brought ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa, spokeswoman Carlotta Sami said. No bodies have so far been recovered. One of the casualties is the 19-year-old goalkeeper […]

More than 200 migrants are believed drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, migration officials say.
The UN refugee agency was told the news by survivors brought ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa, spokeswoman Carlotta Sami said. No bodies have so far been recovered.
One of the casualties is the 19-year-old goalkeeper of The Gambian national women’s football team, Fatim Jawara. More than 4,200 migrants have died making the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea this year, International Organization of Migration spokesman Leonard Doyle says.
Many of those killed in the latest two incidents are believed to be migrants from West Africa. Smugglers who organise the treacherous journeys overload flimsy boats and often send them off in bad weather, the UN says.