90 FEARED DEAD IN CAPSIZING OF SMUGGLERS’ BOAT

GENEVA About 90 people are feared drowned after a smugglers’ boat carrying mostly Pakistani migrants capsized off Libya’s coast early Friday, the UN’s migration agency said.

Ten bodies have washed ashore near the Libyan town of Zuwara following the tragedy in the early morning, said International Organization for Migration spokeswoman Olivia Headon.

“We are told that two survivors swam to shore, and one person was rescued by a fishing boat,” Headon said by phone from Tunisia’s capital.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said 11 of its citizens had drowned in the incident.

Ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal told The Associated Press that Pakistani diplomats reached Libya’s coastal area to collect more details and begin the process of repatriating the bodies of the deceased.