34 migrants drown in Mediterranean shipwreck, 26 survivors — UN

Reuters
The so-called boat cemetery, where skiffs are dumped after the migrants and refugees' crossing from North Africa, is pictured in Lampedusa on September 27, 2018. (AFP)
  • “The boat was adrift since Sunday with 60 people aboard..." IOM spokesman said
  • A Moroccan official said 11 bodies had been recovered

GENEVA/RABAT: At least 34 migrants have died in a shipwreck in the western Mediterranean, which 26 people survived, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday, citing the Moroccan navy and a Spanish aid agency.
Joel Millman, spokesman of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), told Reuters: “The boat was adrift since Sunday with 60 people aboard. At least 34 have drowned, it looks like there were 26 survivors.”
The information came from the Moroccan navy and a Spanish non-governmental oragnization Caminando Fronteras, he said.
A Moroccan official, asking not to be named, said 11 bodies had been recovered, adding that the dead were all migrants, not Moroccan nationals.