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Picking-up '111' immigrants' bodies and rescuing '198' other off Zawara coast.

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Tripoli, 29.08.2015 - (Lana) - The number of illegal immigrants bodies picked off Libyan coast , near Zawara city west of Tripoli , had risen to '111' bodies , while the searching for missing is still on , according to the Libyan red crescent 'LRC'. The LRC spokesman 'Mohamed Misrati' said , that today Saturday '198' migrants were rescued , including women and children , from African , Syrian and Bengali nationalities , after a rickety boat sank off Zawara city coast. He added , that the search and rescue operation by coats guards and the LRC , are still on , to search for the missing , after their boat with about 400 illegal immigrants on board drowned last Thursday. For his side , a search team official 'Sediq Sa'eed' said , that some of the survivals said , the number of the migrants on the boats were about '400' , and another boar had sank on Wednesday in the same spot with '69' on board it. In a related development , the special intervention room in Zawara , affiliated to the interior ministry , in the national salvation government , said that three people involved in smuggling migrants were arrested. =Lana=