At least 7 dead as Libyan tanker rescues over 100 migrants

TRIPOLI - At least seven bodies were recovered - including a child - and four pregnant women were listed as missing, as an oil tanker rescued 102 migrants from the Mediterranean off Tripoli on Friday.

"We were some 22 nautical miles northeast of Tripoli when at around 9am (0700 GMT) we spotted a group of people in the water," said Mohammed al-Kone, an officer on-board a Libyan oil tanker.

"They were near a rubber boat which had deflated, but was carrying seven bodies, including that of a small child," he said, adding that the survivors had reported four pregnant women missing.

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