(MENAFN) Libyan navy have saved 82 migrants and returned one body, as a Libyan Red Crescent crew discovered five corpses of migrants in many locations off the country's coast.
Ayob Qassem, Libyan navy spokesman declared that a coast guards patrol had saved 82 illegal immigrants from several African nationalities 48 km off Garrabulli town, nearly 55 km east of the capital Tripoli.
He added: "The migrants were on a broken rubber boat. They waited for four hours in the water, until the coast guards patrol boat arrived and rescued them in two batches,".
A migrant, whose body was found after the boat collided, has been recovered, according to Qassem.
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