Four migrants have died after two boats carrying a total of 95 people capsized off the coast of Al-Khums on Thursday evening, according to a statement from the Libyan Red Crescent’s Al-Khums branch.
The first boat was carrying 26 migrants, all of them from Bangladesh. Four of the passengers drowned when the vessel overturned near the shoreline.
The second boat, which capsized shortly after, was transporting 69 migrants, including two Egyptians and 67 Sudanese nationals, among them eight children.
Emergency response teams from the Libyan Red Crescent rushed to the scene immediately after receiving the alert, working alongside the Coast Guard and Port Security Authority. Rescue operations, body recovery, and medical assistance were carried out according to established procedures.
Authorities confirmed that the recovered bodies have been transferred to the relevant institutions on the instructions of the Public Prosecutor in Al-Khums, as legal procedures related to the incident move forward.
The tragedy marks the latest deadly incident along Libya’s central Mediterranean route, one of the world’s most dangerous migration corridors.
