Some 150 migrants are missing after their boat sank off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration said Thursday.
"The sinking took place off the coast of the city of Khoms," some 100 kilometres from Tripoli, said Safa Msehli, IOM spokesperson in Libya.
Other migrants from the vessel, 145 of whom were rescued by the Libyan coastguard, reported that some 150 more people were missing after the boat capsized.
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