At least 73 migrants have drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria’s coast, in what is the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years
Lebanon has been seeing a spike in the number of would-be migrants using its shores to attempt the perilous crossing in overcrowded boats to reach Europe.
A regime official said a day earlier that the boat was carrying up to 150 people and authorities said that 20 survivors were taken to hospital, potentially leaving many people still unaccounted for. Many of the boat's Lebanese passengers hail from impoverished regions in the country's north including the city of Tripoli, Lebanon's poorest, which has emerged as an illegal migration hub.
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