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48 people sent back to Libya a day after a tragic refugee shipwreck
The Fezzan, a Libyan coastguard ship, intercepts a refugee boat
[sea-watch.org/Fleix Weiss]
FORTY-EIGHT people attempting to flee Libya were intercepted by the country’s EU-supported coastguards this morning, a day after 43 others died in the first reported refugee shipwreck this year.
The refugees left Zawia on Libya’s northern coast in a wooden boat on Tuesday night.
After the boat sprung a leak later they managed to contact Alarm Phone, an activist network that runs a hotline for people in distress at sea, early this morning,
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