Lebanon migrant shipwreck
24 Sep
Eighty-six bodies have been recovered since a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sunk off Syria's coast, state media said Saturday, in one of the deadliest recent such shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean. Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, called it a "heart-wrenching tragedy". Search efforts were continuing with several people still missing…
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