UNHCR confirmed that 15 migrants drowned in the shipwreck of which the Alarm Phone reported: "The bodies of 15 people were recovered when 2 boats arrived this evening at the naval base in Tripoli", wrote the Libyan branch in the following hours. 'United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Twitter.
"Aid has been provided to 177 survivors", he added, specifying that "some (...) needed urgent medical assistance". The migrants "had left Zuara and Al Khoms the night before", UNHCR also specified. "Tragic loss of life", underlines the UN High Commissioner by publishing two photos of migrants aboard and next to a patrol boat during the Tripoli night. According to the most recent bulletin published yesterday by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on the "central Mediterranean route", the one that leads from Libya to Italy, this year 474 deaths were counted and 689 missing compared to 381 deaths and 597 missing persons in the whole of 2020. The migrants brought back to Libya up to 9 October were 26,314,IOM still calculates, recalling that in the 12 months of last year there were 11,891.
