UN refugee agency fears 500 dead in Mediterranean shipwreck

UN refugee agency fears 500 dead in Mediterranean shipwreck

The UN refugee bureau said on Wednesday it feared about 500 migrants from Africa had drowned in the Mediterranean afterwards assemblage said their brimming baiter sank.

UNHCR backer Carlotta Sami said in a account beatific to AFP that survivors from Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt who were rescued from a baby baiter had declared seeing "a ample ambush that took abode in the Mediterranean Sea claiming the lives of about 500 people".

The survivors -- 37 men, three women and a three-year-old adolescent -- said amid 100 and 200 humans had set off from abreast Tobruk in Libya in a large, unseaworthy vessel.

"In the average of sea, the smugglers brought in added passengers, appointment them with a abate boat. Due to the overcrowding, the ample baiter sank," the account said.

The survivors drifted at sea afore getting spotted and rescued on April 16 and accustomed the afterward day in Kalamata, in Greece, the UN bureau added.

It said the date of the biconcave was still unclear, and gave no advice about who rescued the migrants.

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