Children among 45 dead in 2020's worst Mediterranean boat tragedy
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Summary
The two agencies said the survivors, mostly from Senegal, Mali, Chad and Ghana, were rescued by local fishermen and later detained upon disembarkation.Following the tragic incident in the Mediterranean, the UNHCR and the IOM urgently called for a review of countries' approach in their rescue efforts. "There remains an absence of any dedicated, EU-led search and rescue programme," Federico Soda, head of the IOM's mission in Libya, said on Twitter."We fear that without an urgent increase in SaR capacity, there is a risk of more disasters," he added, referring to the search and rescue activities by the coastguards of countries in the Mediterranean. ð¨ Some 45 people die in Largest recorded shipwreck off Libya this year.
As said here by Al Jazeera