Boat with 86 migrants capsizes off Tunisia; 3 survivors

Associated Press
Thursday, July 4, 2019 10:12 a.m. | Thursday, July 4, 2019 10:12 a.m.

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Debris covers the ground and an emergency vehicle after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura, east of Tripoli in Libya, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. An airstrike hit the detention center for migrants early Wednesday, killing several.

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This satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies on Wednesday, July 3. 2019 show before, top, and after an airstrike hit a migrant detention facility in Tripoli, Libya. The U.N. mission to Libya says at least 44 migrants were killed when an airstrike hit the detention facility where they were being held outside the Libyan capital.

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An injured migrant is treated inside a Tripoli, Libya, after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura, east of Tripoli, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. An airstrike hit the detention center for migrants early Wednesday, killing several.

CAIRO — The U.N. migration agency says a boat carrying 86 migrants from Libya sank in the Mediterranean overnight, and just three people on board survived, with 82 missing.

The shipwreck late Wednesday off the Tunisian city of Zarzis came a day after a deadly airstrike on a Libyan detention center that killed at least 44 migrants.

Tunisian fishermen came across the sinking boat and were able to pull out four men, but could not find any of the other passengers on the boat, said Lorena Lando, head of the International Organization for Migration in Tunisia. One of the four, a man from Ivory Coast, died overnight and the other three remained hospitalized.

Earlier this week, another boat from Libya made it to the Tunisian port of Sfax with 65 people on board.