{"id":42964,"date":"2026-08-18T13:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42964"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:40:16","slug":"nine-bodies-of-migrants-recovered-off-eastern-tripoli-red-crescent","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nine-bodies-of-migrants-recovered-off-eastern-tripoli-red-crescent\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine bodies of migrants recovered off eastern Tripoli: Red Crescent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine bodies of migrants have been recovered in the past two days from the \u200bshores of an eastern suburb of the Libyan \u200ccapital Tripoli after their boat capsized, the Tripoli Red Crescent branch said.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Crescent branch said in a statement \u200blate on Monday that the bodies were \u200brecovered from Tajoura, some 22 km (14 miles) from \u2060Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>More bodies are likely to wash ashore as \u200bthe boat was carrying about 19 people, according \u200bto local authorities in Tajoura, Tripoli Red Crescent media Officer Muad Zurgani told Reuters by phone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The search and recovery operations \u200bare still ongoing in co-ordination with the relevant \u200bauthorities, under field conditions that require continuous effort and an urgent \u200chumanitarian \u2060response,&#8221; the Tripoli Red Crescent said.<br \/>\nPictures posted by the aid organisation showed their volunteers, together with security forces, carrying bodies in white plastic bags on \u200bthe beach.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bcharity rescue ship, \u2060EMERGENCY, rescued 50 migrants from a wooden boat in international waters off Libya \u200bon Monday, while seven others were found \u200bdead.<br \/>\nLibya \u2060has become a transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to Europe via dangerous routes across the \u2060desert \u200band over the Mediterranean since \u200bthe toppling of former leader Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed uprising \u200bin 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42252,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-42964","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"More bodies are likely to wash ashore as \u200bthe boat was carrying about 19 people.","published_date":"","news_description":"More bodies are likely to wash ashore as \u200bthe boat was carrying about 19 people.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42965,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42964\/revisions\/42965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}