Off Syria's coast about seventy-seven migrants have died after the boat they were travelling in sank. It is not clear what caused the accident. A rescue attempt is ongoing.
About, twenty
survivors are being treated in a hospital in the Syrian city of Tartus.
Officials
said Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian nationals - including women and children
- were believed to be among the 120-150 people who were on board when the boat
sank on Thursday.
Officials
added that the vessel had departed from Minyeh, a city near the Lebanese port
city of Tripoli, before it sank near the Syrian island of Arwad, close to
Tartus.
The boat
is believed to have been heading to Cyprus when it sank.
Tartus,
where survivors have been transported, is about 30 miles (50 km) north of
Tripoli. Syrian news agency Sana said authorities would transfer the bodies of
unidentified victims to the border crossing to hand them over to the Lebanese
Red Cross.
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