Boat with Sudanese migrants capsizes off Libya, leaving at least 17 dead, UN says
- Posted on April 30, 2026
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Boat with Sudanese migrants capsizes off Libya, leaving at least 17 dead, UN says
A boat carrying 33 Sudanese migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea near the eastern Libyan town of Tobruk, leaving at least 17 people dead and nine others missing, U.N. officials said Thursday. Only seven of the people on board survived the shipwreck, the U.N. refugee agency said on X. The U.N. International Organization for Migration, or IOM, said that when the survivors were rescued, they had been stranded at sea for several days, and that some of the migrants had died of hunger and thirst.
