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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Alice Peacock

Thirty people dead after boat carrying nearly 50 migrants capsizes in bad weather

Thirty people have died in the Mediterranean after a boat carrying migrants from Libya capsized in bad weather.

Alarm Phone, a charity monitoring distress calls from migrant vessels crossing to Europe, posted on Twitter on Sunday afternoon that a boat reported to be carrying 47 people had capsized 110 miles (176km) north-west of Benghazi.

Around 9pm on Sunday the charity posted an update to its website, stating that 30 people had lost their lives after the boat capsized. The merchant vessel FROLAND picked up and saved 17 people, who saw friends and family die next to them.

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