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Syrian information platforms introduced {that a} boat had been discovered sinking off the coast of Tartus close to Arwad Island – Syria, with Lebanese migrants on board on their solution to Cyprus.
The seek for potential survivors continued all through the night time yesterday and till at present, with out interruption.
Its roughly 120 passengers had been distributed among the many aged, girls, and kids of Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian nationalities, over a large space within the sea.
Russian and Syrian helicopters supported the Syrian coast guard boats and the boats of Syrian fishermen that volunteered to assist with this operation.
It was recognized that the boat had taken off just a few days in the past from the locality of Dahr al-Malha within the outlying city of Bhanine-Minya on the southern aspect of the Nahr al-Bared camp, and its vacation spot was Italy.
It was additionally reported that the Lebanese military arrested at night time a kind of suspected of being concerned in facilitating unlawful immigration throughout the ocean, who could also be linked to the sunken boat off the Syrian coast.
As of but, the variety of our bodies that had been recovered rose to 53.
As for the variety of survivors, it has risen to 21, and are being handled at Al-Basel Hospital in Tartous. Their names are as follows:
The 6 Lebanese: Fouad Ahmed Tlais, 30, Wissam Al-Talawi, 37, Zain Al-Din Muhammad, 24, Duaa Abdel Mawla, 22, from Tripoli, Jihad Al-Bashlawi, Saleh Ahmed Razzouk from Tripoli.
The 11 Syrians: Muhammad Hassan Bilal, 52, from Aleppo, Hassan Taslej, 57, from Idlib, Hamida Taslej, 20, from Idlib, Ahmed Al-Bakour, 21, from Idlib, Mahmoud Othman, 36, from Idlib, Roa Habbush, 20, from Latakia, and Rama Habbush, 22. Amjad Ghabo, 17 years outdated, from Latakia, Saleh Arkeel, 27 years outdated, from Lattakia, Fadi Khirfan, 36 years outdated, from Latakia, and Khaled Hussein Badawi, 45 years outdated, from Lattakia.
The Palestinians are 4: Muhammad Ismail, 40 years outdated, from Nahr al-Bared, and his spouse, Abdullah al-Saeed, from Nahr al-Bared, Ibrahim Shukri al-Mansur from Nahr al-Bared.
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