Cairo, September 25 (BNA) The death toll of a migrant boat that sank off the Syrian coast after it sailed from Lebanon earlier this week has risen to 94, after more bodies were recovered from the Syrian coast of Banias on the Mediterranean, according to Syrian state television. day said.
It is the deadliest trip of its kind so far from Lebanon, where growing economic desperation has prompted many to board rickety and overcrowded boats in the hope of reaching Europe, Reuters reports.
On Thursday afternoon, the Syrian authorities began finding bodies off the coast of the northern port city of Tartus. The Syrian Ministry of Transport quoted survivors as saying that the boat left from the Minieh area in northern Lebanon on Tuesday, with between 120 and 150 people on board, bound for Europe.