Migrant boat
Bodies of 13 women found after migrant boat sinks in Mediterranean
The coastguard said 13 men and nine women survived the sinking of the boat, which was carrying more than 50 people when the disaster struck. Many of the...
The Libyans had left the scene after the two women refused to board their patrol ship along with a boy of about four, it said.
Budiawan, head of the National Search and Rescue Agency in Medan, said 18 survivors were found and two bodies had been recovered on Monday evening.
Libya’s western coast is the main departure point for migrants trying to reach Europe by the sea, though the number of crossings has dropped sharply since last July.
The move by Italy’s new Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is part of efforts to make good on his electoral promises to halt the flow of migrants into the country.
The boat went down near the southern island of Kerkenna, a tourist spot, in the night to Sunday, the defense ministry said in a statement.
More than 3,200 migrants have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean this year.
A boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off Egypt on Wednesday.
Rescue workers have so far saved 154 people, officials said, meaning about 400 could still be missing.
Rescue workers have so far saved 154 people, officials said, meaning about 400 could still be missing.
A boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized and sank off the Egyptian port city of Rosetta.
EU leaders wants to see its trade-and-aid euros used to help solve its migration crisis.
The Mediterranean migrant crisis in numbers
Many of the boats are believed to have left from the shore around Zuwara and Sabratha in Libya's northwest.
About 14,000 have been rescued & there’ve been at least 3 confirmed instances of boats sinking.
Boat arrivals in Italy have risen sharply this week amid warm weather & calm seas.
The survivors from Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan say they were transferred to another vessel when it sank.
A spokesman for Libyan naval forces said the bodies of four dead women had been recovered.
Italian homicide police removed the items from the corpses of about 90 men, women and infants.