A boat with migrants capsized north off Libya, leaving 51 dead or missing, group says - WTOP News

Published
June 19, 2026
Outcome
Fatal
Location
Tobruk, District of Columbia
Mediterranean Sea off eastern Libya
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Incident type
Drowning, Crash, Fall, Boating, Transit

Summary

Bus Crash Tobruk District Of Columbia in Tobruk, District of Columbia: A boat carrying dozens of migrants capsized on June 12 in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of eastern Libya, near Tobruk. The incident left 51 people dead or missing, with ten survivors and eleven bodies recovered while forty others remain missing.

Original reporting

A boat with migrants capsized north off Libya, leaving 51 dead or missing, group says - WTOP News

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