More than 130 migrants are believed dead after their rubber boat sank off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency and rescue organizations said Friday.
In a statement, French volunteer rescue group SOS Méditerranée said its Ocean Viking vessel responded to an alert of three boats of distress in the central Mediterranean waters northeast of the Libyan city of Tripoli. After hours of search in the rough seas, the rescue crew discovered 10 floating bodies and no survivors.
