Tripoli - A boat carrying migrants sank off Libya's Mediterranean coast, killing at least seven people, a local official said on Sunday, the second such fatal accident within days.
"We had reports this morning that there are seven bodies of illegal migrants that sank off Khoms [east of Tripoli]... but we don't have any details how many migrants were on board," said Mohamad al-Misrati, a spokesperson for the Red Crescent in Tripoli.
No more details were immediately available. On Thursday, a vessel packed with migrants hoping to make it from Libya to Italy sank in waters off the Libyan town of Zuwara, killing up to 200 people.