ROME: More than sixty migrants are missing in waters off Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday after interviewing survivors who were picked up from their stricken craft.
An Italian corvette, the Fenice, picked up dozens of migrants aboard a sinking rubber dinghy Tuesday after the vessel was spotted by a naval helicopter.
Fifty-four were brought to the Italian island of Lampedusa, but according to testimony from survivors, the craft had set off with between 117 and 120 people on board, all of them from sub-Saharan Africa, the IOM said.
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