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Five migrants die and more than 100 rescued off Libya coast

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Libyan navy rescues 272 migrants from stranded boats

BENGHAZI, Libya/January 08, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) —Libya’s navy says it has rescued 272 migrants whose vessels were stranded in the Mediterranean Sea as they tried to reach southern Europe.

A navy statement late Sunday said the migrants were on two vessels. The engine of one vessel sank into the sea while the engine of the other broke down.

It says the migrants included 53 women and 57 children. The bodies of two female migrants were found on one of the vessels. It added that the survivors were taken to a port in Tripoli, the Libyan capital.

Libya has been plagued by lawlessness and militia rule since a 2011 uprising toppled and killed dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The chaos has allowed the North African nation to become a major transit point for migrants seeking to reach Europe.

African migrants rest after being rescued by the Libyan coastguard after their boat sunk off the coastal town of Garaboly, east of Tripoli, Libya. According to a coastguard spokesperson, there were 108 immigrants on the boat, of which 102 were rescued while three were found dead and another 3 missing. 

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Libyan navy rescues more than 100 migrants bound for Italy

TRIPOLI – Libyan naval forces have rescued more than 100 migrants whose vessel ran into engine trouble on the way from the Libyan coast to Italy, authorities said on Monday.

Caught in a conflict between two rival governments and various armed factions, Libya has become a major route for traffickers taking advantage of the chaos to transport people from the North African coast to Europe, fuelling the continent’s worst migration crisis since World War Two.

“Naval forces rescued 108 illegal migrants from the middle of the sea,” naval spokesman Ayoub Qassem said. “They are from different African countries.”

Two more migrants died, and two of those rescued were in serious condition.

“We were trying to go to Italy yesterday,” one of the rescued men, Idriss, said. “We had a breakdown of the engine.”

Smugglers exploit the country’s security vacuum to bring Syrians into Libya via Egypt or migrants from sub-Saharan countries via Niger, Sudan and Chad, experts say.

The migrants pay thousands of dollars for the land and sea passage, with smugglers often beating and torturing them to extort more money for the final leg of the trip by sea in unseaworthy vessels, rights groups say.

Migrant smuggling and the growth of Islamic State militancy in Libya’s conflict are two of the key reasons European and Western powers are promoting a U.N. peace deal between Libya’s major warring factions.

Libyan Navy Fires Upon Un-armed Turkish Cargo Ship!!!!!

A Turkish dry cargo ship has been attacked near the Libyan port city of Tobruk, the Foreign Ministry in Ankara says. A ship officer was killed and several crew members injured.

The incident took place Sunday night. The ship was first shelled from the shore as it was approaching the area, the Turkish ministry said Monday. It was then attacked twice from the air as it was trying to leave the area.