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Death toll on migrant boat in Lebanon rises to 71

Fur any less 71 people died when the boat immigrant in who were on board sank off the Syrian coast inthen in from the Lebanon at first inokinana, said the Lebanese Transport Minister, while operations in search continued this Friday (23).

It’s the journeyin deadliest so far Lebanononin the crescent ineconomic desperation has led many to leave in boats often fragile and overcrowded in hope in reach Europe.

the authoritiesinSyrians have started to find bodies on the coast in Tartus in Tartusin in Thursday. Syria’s Transport Ministry quoted survivors as saying the boat left the region in Minyeh, in northern Lebanonon Tuesday, with between 120 and 150 people on board, with indestination to Europe.

The family in Mustafa Misto, a Lebanese who was in boat with his wife and three young children, was receiving condolences in your apartment in the poor neighborhood in Bab Al-Ramel, in the cityin in Tripoli.

“Don’t youinthe nobody but in Inus,” shouted an elderly relative as the people paid their respects.

Lebanese Transport Minister Ali Hamiye said 20 survivors were being treated in Syrian hospitals, most inles sírios — about in 1 million of which I livein at the Lebanon like refugees.

Source: CNN Brasil

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