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Over 100 Refugees Missing, 8 Dead After Shipwreck in Mediterranean

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Over 100 Refugees Missing, 8 Dead After Shipwreck in Mediterranean

03:28 GMT 15.01.2017

Refugees and migrants wait to be rescued from their sinking rubber boat some eight nautical miles off Libya's Mediterranean coastline on October 12, 2016 - Sputnik International

Over 100 people are deemed missing and eight are dead as a result of a shipwreck with refugees on board off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea, local media reported.

A Belgian nav.y sailor passes life vests to migrants sitting in a rubber boat as they approach the Belgian Navy Vessel Godetia during a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean Eea off the Libyan coasts, Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - Sputnik International

Over 1,000 Migrants Cross Mediterranean Into Europe in January

13 January 2017, 17:05 GMT

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Four refugees have been saved, and they said that there were 107 migrants onboard, the ANSA news agency reported.

Search and rescue operations reportedly continued after nightfall in poor weather conditions.

Europe has been beset by a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants fleeing their crisis-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa to escape violence and poverty.

The majority of them cross the Mediterranean Sea and arrive in the European Union using southern EU nations as transit points. The overall number of migrants that arrived to Europe by sea in 2016 stands for 343,589, according to the IOM.