Boat with 170 Africans on board sinks off Libyan coast

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Boat with 170 Africans on board sinks off Libyan coast

By Ahmed Elumami and Ayman al-Salhi TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A wooden boat with around 170 African migrants on board trying to reach Europe has sunk in rough seas off the Libyan coast, a spokesman for the Libyan navy said on Saturday. So far in 2014, the total number reaching Italian shores has passed 100,000, the Italian government said this week. "The coast guards have rescued 17 of the illegal migrants," navy spokesman Ayoub Qassem said. Local coast guard official Mohammad Abdellatif told Reuters Television they had been alerted to the sinking by local fishermen at dawn on Saturday morning.

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