500 Migrants Feared Dead In Mediterranean Shipwreck
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees have said that up to 500 people may have drowned following a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea at the weekend. The Globe and Mail reports: The disaster happened in waters between Italy and Libya, based on accounts from 41 survivors who were rescued on April 16 by a merchant ship, UNHCR said. The agency said that if confirmed, it would be one of the deadliest tragedies on the Mediterranean in the last year. The survivors said they had been among 100 to 200 people who left a town near Tobruk, Libya, on a smugglers’ boat last week.