The Washington Post. Roma
As many as 64 African migrants, including a mother whose surviving 3-year-old child desperately clung to her as she drowned, are feared dead after a traffickers’ overcrowded rubber dinghy from Libya started sinking in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said Monday.
The Italian coast guard rescued 86 people from the boat hours after it started sinking Saturday morning as it took on water and started deflating, a U.N. migration agency official said. Rescue divers leaped into the water to pull dozens to safety.
