TRIPOLI, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- At least four people were killed when two boats carrying 95 migrants capsized off the coast of the western Libyan city of Al Khums, the Libyan Red Crescent said on Saturday.
In a statement posted on its official Facebook page, the Red Crescent said that the two incidents occurred on Thursday night.
It added that the first boat was carrying 26 migrants of Bangladeshi nationality, four of whom died after the vessel sank. The second boat was carrying 69 illegal migrants, including two Egyptians and 67 Sudanese, among them eight children.
The Red Crescent noted that its emergency team, in cooperation with the coast guard and port security authority, carried out rescue operations, recovered the bodies, and handled the cases according to established procedures.
In recent weeks, similar incidents have occurred frequently along the Libyan coast, where coastal cities have seen a rise in efforts to retrieve the bodies of undocumented migrants and rescue many others stranded at sea while trying to cross the Mediterranean toward Europe. Enditem
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