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Up to 30 dead in shipwreck off Libya: EU naval force

By AFP
Libya Italy is on the frontline of a wave of migrant arrivals from north Africa.  By Gabriel Bouys AFPFile
MAY 26, 2016 LISTEN
Italy is on the frontline of a wave of migrant arrivals from north Africa. By Gabriel Bouys (AFP/File)

Rome (AFP) - Up to 30 people are feared dead after a shipwreck off Libya, while about 50 migrants have been rescued from the waves, the EU's naval force said Thursday.

"We estimate the dead to be between 20 and 30 people," captain Antonello de Renzis Sonnino, spokesman for the EU's Sofia military operation to combat people smugglers in the Mediterranean, told AFP.

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