CAIRO (AP) — At least 42 people are missing and presumed dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Libya last week, the U.N.’s migration agency said on Wednesday.
Seven survivors have been located after the vessel’s engine failed in high waves at around dawn on Nov. 3, several hours after it departed Zuwara, a coastal city northwestern Libya, the International Organization for Migration, or IOM, said.
The survivors were stranded for six days and found after Libyan authorities carried out a rescue mission near al-Buri Oil Field on Saturday.
The rubber boat was said to have been carrying 47 men and two women. The missing include 29 Sudanese, eight Somalis, three Cameroon nationals, and two people from Nigeria.
The IOM said it has provided urgent medical care, water an

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