{"id":32497,"date":"2020-08-20T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tabadul.demo.ly\/en\/45-irregular-migrants-die-in-shipwreck-off-libya\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T11:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:09:58","slug":"45-irregular-migrants-die-in-shipwreck-off-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/45-irregular-migrants-die-in-shipwreck-off-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"45 irregular migrants die in shipwreck off Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 45 irregular migrants, including five children, died when their boat\u2019s engine exploded in waters off Libya\u2019s Mediterranean coast, the UN said Wednesday.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident, which occurred on Aug. 17, was the largest recorded shipwreck off the Libyan coast so far this year, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSome\u202f37\u202fsurvivors, mainly from\u202fSenegal, Mali, Chad and Ghana, were rescued by local fishermen and later detained upon disembarkation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey reported to IOM staff that\u202f45\u202fothers, including five\u202fchildren, lost their lives when the vessel\u2019s engine exploded off the coast of Zwara,\u201d it added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 302 migrants and refugees have drowned on this route so far this year, and the estimated number\u202fof fatalities is likely much higher, according to the statement.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two organizations also called for a review of states\u2019 approach to the situation after the incident in the Mediterranean, adding \u201cthere is an urgent need to strengthen the current search and rescue capacity there to respond to distress calls.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 45 irregular migrants, including five children, died when their boat\u2019s engine exploded in waters off Libya\u2019s Mediterranean coast, the UN said Wednesday.&nbsp;&nbsp; The incident, which occurred on Aug. 17, was the largest recorded shipwreck off the Libyan coast so far this year, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9271],"tags":[10537],"class_list":["post-32497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-illegal-immigrationlibyalibyan-coastmigrathe-mediterraneanunhcr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}