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Libya rescuers recover 62 bodies at sea after 'worst' wreck of 2019

The head of the UN refugee agency Filippo Grandi called the wreck "the worst Mediterranean tragedy of this year"

Rescue workers said Friday they had plucked the bodies of 62 migrants from waters off the Libyan coast a day after one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean this year.

About 145 migrants were rescued by the Libyan coastguard Thursday after their overloaded boat went down east of the capital near the port city of Khoms.

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