Lebanese cabinet orders military to investigate deadly migrant boat capsize


  • World
  • Tuesday, 26 Apr 2022

FILE PHOTO Lebanese army search for survivors after a boat capsized off the Lebanese coast of Tripoli overnight near port of Tripoli northern Lebanon April 24 2022. REUTERSOmar Ibrahim

FILE PHOTO: Lebanese army search for survivors after a boat capsized off the Lebanese coast of Tripoli overnight, near port of Tripoli, northern Lebanon April 24, 2022. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's cabinet ordered the military court on Tuesday to investigate the capsize of a migrant boat after colliding with a naval vessel giving chase, with at least six dead and dozens missing.

The boat carrying Lebanese and Syrian migrants sank off the coast near the impoverished northern city of Tripoli on Saturday night. The U.N. refugee agency said around 80 people were on board, including men, women and children.

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