NGO says 100 missing in Med after migrant boat capsize

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Last Updated : Nov 15 2016 | 11:57 PM IST
Around 100 people were missing in the Mediterranean after a migrant dinghy capsized off Libya today, said Jugend Rettet, a German NGO operating a rescue boat in the area.
The NGO said in a tweet that 23 survivors had been transferred to an oil tanker and that "the crews are searching for survivors in the water and recovering dead bodies.

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First Published: Nov 15 2016 | 11:57 PM IST

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