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More than 100 migrants missing off Libyan coast

Tunisian civil protection workers recover the body of an African migrant near the eastern city of Zarzis after a string of deadly shipwrecks in the Mediterranean

More than 100 migrants were missing after their boat sank off the coast of Libya in what might be the worst tragedy in the Mediterranean this year, aid agencies said Thursday.

"The sinking took place off the coast of the city of Khoms," some 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Tripoli, said Safa Msehli, spokesperson for the International Organisation of Migration in Libya.

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