{"id":100317,"date":"2026-02-09T21:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=100317"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:48:59","slug":"tragedy-at-sea-dozens-feared-dead-in-libya-boat-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/tragedy-at-sea-dozens-feared-dead-in-libya-boat-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy at Sea: Dozens feared dead in Libya boat disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: The International Organization for Migration (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/hajj-visa-biometrics-deadline-ends-february-8\/\">IOM<\/a>), a subsidiary of the United Nations, has confirmed that 53 people have died or are missing after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Libya.<\/p>\n<p>An IOM spokesperson said in a statement that the boat capsized on February 6 near Zarawa in Libya, after which only two Nigerian women were rescued during a search operation.<\/p>\n<p>According to one survivor of the accident, she lost her husband, while another woman said that her two children are also missing after the accident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the survivors, the boat left the Libyan region of Zawya on February 5 and was carrying Africans.<\/p>\n<p>According to IOM data, at least 375 migrants were reported dead or missing in January alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a subsidiary of the United Nations, has confirmed that 53 people have died or are missing after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Libya. An IOM spokesperson said in a statement that the boat capsized on February 6 near Zarawa in Libya, after which only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":65051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35119],"class_list":["post-100317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-libya-boat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100318,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100317\/revisions\/100318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}