(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) The Lebanese navy on Saturday rescued 232 Syrian migrants who
were onboard a boat off the Batroun beach in northern Lebanon, and
recovered the bodies of a drowned woman and her child, a Lebanese
security source told xinhua , trend reports.
The source said that water got into the boat after it was
broken, and the two migrants drowned before the navy's intervention
to transfer them to the shore.
Andre Tenenti, the spokesperson of the UN Interim Force in
Lebanon (UNIFIL), announced that the UNIFIL Maritime Force assisted
the Lebanese Armed Forces navy in the rescue operation with an
Indonesian and another Greek ship assisting at the site of the
sinking boat which was on the way to Italy.
Lebanon has witnessed a wave of illegal migration attempts to
Europe due to the deteriorating living conditions and collapse of
the local currency.
One of these attempts led to the sinking of a boat in April,
carrying over 80 Lebanese and Syrian migrants near the northern
city of Tripoli.
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