(MENAFN) On Tuesday, at least 18 migrants were saved and eight more still missing off the coast of Libya's western city of Sabratha, nearly 70 km west of the capital Tripoli.
"A wooden boat carrying 27 migrants capsized off the coastal city of Sabratha. Seven women and 11 men were rescued, and the remaining eight are still missing," Basem al-Ghrabli, Sabratha's anti-illegal immigration department official, informed Xinhua.
Al-Ghrabli stated that a body of little girl was recovered on the city's coast.
A huge numbers of irregular migrants decide to cross the Mediterranean toward European coasts from Libya due to the disorder in the country after the 2011 uprising.
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