{"id":78643,"date":"2025-11-13T09:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78643"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:22:51","slug":"two-nigerians-rescued-two-dead-42-missing-after-mediterranean-shipwreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/13\/two-nigerians-rescued-two-dead-42-missing-after-mediterranean-shipwreck\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Nigerians Rescued, Two Dead, 42 Missing After Mediterranean Shipwreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The International Organization for Migration (IOM), has confirmed that two Nigerians were among the survivors of a migrant boat that capsized off the coast of Libya, while two others were found dead and 42 remain missing and presumed dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IOM, the rubber boat carrying 49 people left Zuwara in north-west Libya on November 3 and capsized about six hours later when high waves caused its engine to fail.<\/p>\n<p>It drifted for six days before Libyan authorities rescued seven men on November 8: four from Sudan, two from Nigeria and one from Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Those still missing include 29 Sudanese, eight Somalis, three Cameroonians and two Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>The IOM described the incident as a tragic reminder of how dangerous the Central Mediterranean route remains and called for stronger regional cooperation, expanded safe migration pathways and more robust search-and-rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>This tragedy underscores the wider humanitarian crisis surrounding irregular migration from Africa to Europe, where thousands of lives have been lost attempting sea crossings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The International Organization for Migration (IOM), has confirmed that two Nigerians were among the survivors of a migrant boat that capsized off the coast of Libya, while two others were found dead and 42 remain missing and presumed dead. According to the IOM, the rubber boat carrying 49 people left Zuwara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78645,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78643\/revisions\/78645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}