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April 29, 2026
Libyan Red Crescent and Libyan Security?Sources reported on Wednesday that at least 17 migrants were killed and nine are missing after their boat drifted in the 'Mediterranean Sea for eight days. In a press release, the Red Crescent stated that…
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April 20, 2026
Three Libyan sources as well as the International Organization for Migration said that four migrants were rescued more than five days after the boat that was supposed to take them to Europe capsized near Libya. Thirty-one migrants are still missing.
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April 1, 2026
Rescue officials and migrants rescue charities reported that the Italian coast?guard had recovered the bodies and rescued 58 surviving migrants from a boat which broke down while trying to 'cross -to Europe? from Libya. A spokesperson for MSF…
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April 1, 2026
Rescue?officials, and migrant rescue charities said that the Italian coast guard recovered 19 bodies and rescued 58 survivors after a boat broke down while trying to reach Europe from Libya. A spokesperson for MSF and the International Organization for Migration said that some of the victims…
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March 25, 2026
The Government of National Unity in Tripoli (GNU) announced that the Libyan coast guard had 'begun towing' a damaged LNG?tanker, which several Mediterranean countries had warned was a risk to the environment after it drifted?unmanned? for weeks.
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February 21, 2026
A police officer said that at least five bodies, including two women, had washed up on the shores of a coastal village in eastern Libya, called 'Qasr al-Akhyar. Hassan Al-Ghawil is the head of investigations at the Qasr Al-Akhyar Police Station.
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September 7, 2025
A local governor's report said that five people were killed, and one was severely injured, when a boat with migrants struck a Turkish Coast Guard vessel in the northwest of Turkey on Sunday. The search for a missing individual is underway. The…
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February 9, 2026
The International Organization for Migrants (IOM) reported on Monday that 53 migrants, including 2 babies, are dead or missing following a rubber-boat capsize off the coast Libya. IOM, citing survivors, said that the boat left Zawiya Thursday and then flipped off Zuwara Friday.
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November 15, 2025
The Libyan Red Crescent reported on Saturday that at least four people died when two boats with 95 irregular migrants capsized near the Libyan city of Al Khums, on Thursday. In a Facebook post, the Red Crescent confirmed that four migrants on board the first boat died.
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November 6, 2025
Legal sources confirmed on Thursday that a Greek prosecutor had extended charges against four additional senior coast guard officers in connection with one of the Mediterranean’s worst accidents: a shipwreck from 2023, which saw hundreds of people drown off the southwest town of Pylos.
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October 28, 2025
A local branch of the Red Crescent said that on Tuesday, bodies of 18 migrants who drowned when their boat capsized southwest of Tripoli in Libya were recovered, while more than 90 survivors were saved. The Red Crescent in Sabratha (a coastal…
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July 1, 2025
Egypt's Petroleum Ministry said Tuesday it had received a report about a capsized drilling ship in the Gulf of Suez from Offshore Shukheir oil Company. The ministry stated that the drillship "Adam Marine 12" was located at Gabal El Zeit in the Red Sea.
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May 23, 2025
Three sources confirmed on Friday that a Greek naval court had charged 17 coastguard officers in connection with one of the worst shipwrecks to occur in the Mediterranean two years ago. Hundreds of people were believed to have died. The shipwreck that occurred on June 14…
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May 19, 2025
Egypt declared seven people missing, including five foreigners. This was after a tourist vessel capsized in November off the coast of Egypt's Red Sea. In a decree published on Sunday in the official gazette by the country's premier, two British…
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March 27, 2025
The local governor's offices confirmed that six foreigners died when a tourist sub sank near the Red Sea resort of Hurghada in Egypt. However, they did not confirm the nationalities. The Russian consulate at Hurghada confirmed that the "SINDBAD"…
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January 1, 2025
The mayor of Lampedusa, an Italian island, said that seven migrants had been rescued but that at least twenty were still missing. Their boat was en route from Libya to Italy when it sank. One of those who survived was an eight-year-old Syrian child, who hoped to join his German-based father.
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December 29, 2024
In a statement issued on Sunday, the Environment Ministry did not reveal the nationalities involved. However, it confirmed that one tourist had been killed and another injured by a shark in Egypt's Marsa Alam Resort. Sharks are present in the Red Sea, but they are rare.
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December 18, 2024
The national guard reported on Wednesday that the Tunisian Coast Guard had recovered the bodies 20 African migrants after their boat sank just off the coast. This is the second drowning of migrants in one week. The Tunisian coast guard recovered nine bodies last Thursday.
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December 14, 2024
The Greek coastguard reported on Saturday that Greek authorities had recovered a body and rescued 39 migrants after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the southern island Gavdos. Witnesses report that many are still missing. The coastguard…
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November 26, 2024
Amr Hanafi of the Red Sea province said that rescuers were still looking for 13 people who were missing after a tourist vessel capsized near Egypt's Red Sea coastline on Tuesday. The Sea Story capsized near Sataya Reef on Monday, with 31 tourists and thirteen crew members on board.
