Death toll from Lebanon asylum seeker boat tragedy rises to 97
More bodies of refugees and migrants have been recovered from the sea off Syria after a boat capsized on Thursday, raising the death toll to 97 as the Lebanese army said it arrested a suspected smuggler behind one of the deadliest boat disasters in the Eastern Mediterranean. Most of them were Palestinian refugees fleeing poverty in Lebanon – and trying to get to Italy. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from northern Lebanon, near the border with Syria. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ #Lebanon #AsylumSeekers #Boat #Tragedy #MigrantCrisis #AljazeeraEnglish
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