Aid agencies and the Irish Navy are reporting that a fishing vessel carrying about 600 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean and a distress call was issued, about 24 kilometers north of Libya. The navy reports say hundreds of people were in the sea and a rescue effort was under way. The Associated Press cited Irish […]
Additional information is being released in the sinking of the migrant ship off of the coast of Libya over the weekend. It has been determined that approximately 850 migrants were aboard the vessel when it capsized and sank . Only 28 of those aboard are known to have survived the watery ordeal. Many of those […]
Chugach Powder Guides called in to the Soldotna Public Safety Communications Center late on Sunday afternoon to report the death of one of their clients in a glacier calving accident at the head of Lake George according to the trooper dispatch. It was at 5:02 pm that a call went in to troopers from the […]
Italian authorities say at least 29 African migrants have died of hypothermia while crossing the Mediterranean in freezing weather and rough seas. The Italian coast guard says it found seven people dead when it answered a distress call from the migrants’ boat off Libya late Sunday. It says 22 others died on a vessel that […]