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Posted on April 6, 2011 | tags

 
 

World: Hundreds of Libyan refugees feared killed after ship capsizes

  • 200+ migrants, mostly sub-Saharan Africans, were on a ship headed from Libya to Italy
  • 50+ people were rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa after the ship capsized on Wednesday
  • 150+ people are still missing; “We fear they could be even more than that,” said one official source