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More than 100 drown in Libya coast shipwreck

The boat was carrying some 250 people from a number of African and Arab countries.

More than 100 people are feared to have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya. The tragedy occurred when a wooden boat carrying migrants sank near the town of al Khoms.

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