Death Toll Reaches 64 After Migrants’ Dinghy Sinks in Mediterranean<br />On Sunday, 270 other migrants were rescued by the Libyan Coast Guard, probably from more than one dinghy, according to Mr. Di Giacomo.<br />The deaths on Saturday focused attention on the dangerous central Mediterranean crossing between Libya<br />and Italy, where most of those deaths took place, and they prompted calls from the United Nations migration agency for a comprehensive policy to address the humanitarian crisis.<br />JAN. 8, 2018<br />Footage of the rescue operations on Saturday, taken by rescuers from the Italian Coast<br />Guard, shows dozens of people desperately clinging to a partly deflated rubber dinghy.<br />JAN. 8, 2018<br />Mr. Di Giacomo said smugglers must be held accountable for their role in the deaths.<br />8, 2018<br />At least 64 people drowned in the Mediterranean Sea this weekend after the overcrowded<br />rubber dinghy they were traveling on sank off the coast of Libya.<br />According to survivor accounts collected by the United Nations agency, smugglers<br />had packed more than 150 people onto a flimsy rubber dinghy on the Libyan coast.
