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Mediterranean boat capsize: UN calls for ‘comprehensive’ response

United Nations, April 20 : UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday called for a “comprehensive and collective” response to ensure “a robust search and rescue capacity in the Mediterranean” after a boat capsize off the Libyan coast is believed to have killed nearly 700 migrants.

“The secretary-general is shocked and deeply saddened by reports that a ship carrying as many as 700 migrants and…