Agence France-PresseApril 13, 2013 12:31
Libya's coastguard rescued 89 illegal immigrants off the western port of Zawiya after their boat broke down and five of them died, a naval official told Lana news agency on Saturday.
A fisherman told authorities a boat carrying illegal immigrants had been adrift for five days, and a coastguard patrol was sent to rescue them, naval spokesman Colonel Ayub Omar Gacem said.
The immigrants, who were from Sub-Saharan Africa, told their rescuers that five people had died while their boat was adrift, and that they had dumped their bodies at sea.
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