Syrian authorities find 34 dead and 14 survivors from a migrant boat near the coastal city of Tartous that survivors said had left from northern Lebanon, says Samer Qubrusli, the director-general of ports
A Lebanese navy vessel searches for people from a migrant boat that sank overnight in the Mediterranean Sea, near the shores of Tripoli, north Lebanon.
On Thursday, Qubrusli cited survivors as saying that the boat left from Minyeh in north Lebanon days ago and added that those on board had held several nationalities. Lebanon has seen a spike in migration driven by one of the world's deepest economic crises since the 1850s. Dozens of people in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli held a protest earlier on Thursday to alert authorities that they had lost contact with a migrant boat with dozens on board.READ MORE: The Lebanese army on Wednesday said it had rescued 55 people on board one malfunctioning boat in the country's territorial waters that it towed back to shore.
About 80 Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian migrants were on board, of whom some 40 were rescued, seven were confirmed dead and around 30 officially remain missing.
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