For two days, sea rescuers searched for a missing boat with hundreds of women, men and children. Now the UN announced: 485 people were reported in the port city of Benghazi.
The Italian Coast Guard had reported on Thursday the rescue of 423 and 671 migrants in two separate operations, which, according to Alarm Phone, had nothing to do with the missing boat. 27 people from a third boat in distress had been picked up by an oil tanker and illegally returned to Libya.