As a result of the incident, killed at least 64 people. As reported on Monday, January 8, the speaker of the International Organization for Migration, the first reports of the tragedy concerned at least eight dead.

Then the detachments of the Italian Coast Guard managed to save 86 people. At the same time, according to the rescued themselves, there were at least 150 people aboard the sunken ship, which they aspired to reach the coast of Europe. Many rescued children and women.

Rescuers also noted that this accident was the first in 2018 a case of the death of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. The victims were in the water for several hours before they were rescued.

Recall, as URA-Inform jointly, near the coast of Libya, the Coast Guard detained a ship with more than 200 refugees. In particular, it was noted that illegal migrants were on a ship off the coast of Karabully in the west of Libya. In addition, bodies of two refugees were found whose cause of death is not yet known.