(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Syrian authorities have found 15 dead bodies and rescued eight
survivors from a migrant boat near the coastal city of Tartous that
survivors said had left from northern Lebanon, the pro-government
al-Watan Newspaper reported on Thursday evening, Trend reports citing Reuters .
The report cited survivors as saying that the boat left from
Minyeh in north Lebanon days ago and that those on board had held
several nationalities. It said search operations were ongoing with
the help of local fishermen.
Lebanon has seen a spike in migration driven by one of the
world's deepest economic crises since the 1850s. In addition to
Lebanese, many of those leaving aboard migrant boats are themselves
already refugees from Syria and Palestine.
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