Child drowns after boat with Syrians capsizes off Lebanon
Lebanon's army says a child has drowned after a boat carrying 39 migrants hoping to get to Europe capsized off the northern Lebanese coast.
The army says Saturday all other passengers were rescued off the coast of Akkar. The army says the Syrian migrants were being smuggled to Cyprus.
Lebanese Al-Jadeed TV reported, however, that the drowned five-year-old child was Palestinian.
