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UN: Boat capsizes near Libya, migrants presumed dead

The U.N. migration agency said Tuesday that a boat carrying migrants bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, leaving at least two dozen people drowned or missing and presumed dead, the latest shipwreck off the North African country.

Safa Msehli, the spokeswoman for the International Organization for Migration said the coast guard retrieved two bodies, and survivors reported 22 others were missing and presumed dead.

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