Authorities in western Libya's Qasr al-Akhyar municipality recovered 11 bodies and found seven survivors from a migrant boat wreck according to a statement released on Wednesday.
The Department of Environmental Sanitation in the municipality said it was commissioned by the mayor on Tuesday to recover the bodies in cooperation with the Red Crescent Society, the Garabulli Security Directorate, and the Coastal Security Office.
Earlier on Wednesday, the UN's International Organization for Migration reported in a statement that a boat carrying migrants wrecked off the coast of Libya and 73 people were missing and presumed dead.
Off Libya's shores alone, at least 529 migrants were reported dead and 848 others missing last year, while over 24,680 were intercepted and returned to the country, according to the IOM.
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