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.
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