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MORE THAN 100 migrants are missing after their boat sank off the coast of Libya. The tragedy took place off the coast of the city of Khoms which is about 100 kilometres from capital Tripoli.

A spokesman for the Libyan navy said, 134 migrants were rescued and a body recovered, while over a hundred are still missing. A wooden boat carrying around 250 people, including women and children, sank some five nautical miles from the coast.

The head of the UN refugee agency Filippo Grandi tweeted that it is the worst Mediterranean tragedy of this year.

It comes only a few weeks after some 68 migrants died when an Italy-bound boat sank off Tunisia earlier in July.