Two Syrian girls among six who drown when boat sinks off Libya coast
Two Syrian girls aged eight months and five years who were reporedly found to have drowned Friday along with four other people when a wooden boat carrying war refugees trying to make it to Europe capsized off the coast of Libya
The bodies were recovered about 22 nautical miles from Libya on Thursday when the small vessel packed with 27 Syrians flipped over and sank, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) humanitarian group said. The bodies of two women and one man were also recovered, while another person who was on the boat was not found, MOAS reported. MOAS operates two rescue boats in the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and Libya.
The media spotlight refocused on the plight of civilians in Syria's conflict this week following a wrenching video of a dust-covered, disoriented five-year-old boy, Omran Daqneesh, pulled from the rubble after a bombing raid in Aleppo.
