About 30 people have been feared dead following the sinking of a migrant boat off Libya, an official from a European Union naval mission in the Mediterranean said on Thursday.
“A wooden boat went down near the Libyan coast,” Rino Gentile, a press officer for the Eunavfor Med Sophia operation said.
He said that about 100 people were aboard and we estimate that 20-30 are dead.
He added that 50 people have been rescued by a Spanish navy vessel.
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