April 30, 2026 at 12:03 pm

CAIRO (AP) — A boat carrying 33 Sudanese migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea near the eastern Libyan town of Tobruk, leaving at least 17 people dead and nine others missing, U.N. officials said Thursday.

Only seven of the people on board survived the shipwreck, the U.N. refugee agency said on X.

It was unclear when the boat capsized.

The U.N. International Organization for Migration, or IOM, said that when the survivors were rescued, they had been stranded at sea for several days, and that some of the migrants had died of hunger and thirst.

The boat had taken off from Tobruk and was heading to Greece when it capsized about 100 kilometers (60 miles) northwest of the city, the IOM said.…