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Migrant Boats Capsize off Libyan Coast, Scores Feared Drowned

More than 100 migrants and refugees are feared drowned after the boats they were travelling in capsized off Libya's coast in the Mediterranean Sea. A spokesperson for the country's coast guard said that two boats carrying around 300 migrants sank around 120km east of the capital, Tripoli.

Alfredo D’Amato/UNHCR

A boat packed with people is spotted in the Mediterranean Sea from an Italian rescue helicopter in June 2014.

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