146 feared dead after boat capsizes in Mediterranean: UN

‘A rubber boat packed with refugees has sank in the Mediterranean, with the presumed sole survivor saying that he believes all other passengers drowned, the International Migration Organization (IOM) says.
The 16-year-old Gambian boy told United Nations officials that about 150 were on board when the ship capsized off Libya earlier this week.
The UN refugee agency said on Wednesday that some 146 refugees, among them children and several pregnant women, were feared missing after the capsizing.
The agency said the Gambian was interviewed in a hospital in the Italian island of Lampedusa after he was spotted almost by accident by a Spanish military ship sailing in the Mediterranean as part of a European Union operation to crack down on smugglers. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the Spanish ship had found the man while he was desperately holding on a fuel can to survive.’
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