Over 100 migrants feared dead in 2 boat tragedies

Over 100 migrants were feared dead on Friday after two crowded boats capsised off Libya in separate incidents, with one of the tragedies captured on video that shows dramatic rescues and desperate final moments.

The survivors of the first shipwreck, which happened on Thursday, said some 650 people were aboard their boat when it left chaos-wracked Libya.

But they “spoke of 100 missing people who were stuck in the hull,” a spokesman for the International Organisation of Migration in Italy, Flavio Di Giacomo, told AFP.

Italian authorities had initially given a toll of five confirmed dead. While the Italian Navy was able to rescue some 560 people from the water on Thursday, the shipwreck may be one of the worst tragedies in the Mediterranean in recent months.

The Navy captured the tragedy in a horrifying video that shows the boat roll over and dump its passengers into the water.

The EU’s Navy announced that up to 30 migrants were believed to have died after another ship capsised on Friday, drawing rescuers to the scene.