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Cyrusli quoted survivors who said so the boat It started from Minya in the north Lebanon A few days ago, he added that those on board were of different nationalities.
He also said that the search operations are continuing in the midst of difficult conditions due to the waves the sea Strong and strong wind, according to Reuters.
Lebanon has seen a rise in immigration rates, driven by one of the world’s deepest economic crises since the 1850s.
In addition to Lebanese immigrants, there are also refugees from Syria and Palestine who venture on the perilous journey on immigration boats.
At the beginning of Thursday, dozens of people in the northern city of Tripoli organized a protest with the aim of alerting the authorities that they had lost contact with a boat carrying dozens of migrants.
Reuters was unable to confirm whether the boat was the same as the one indicated by the Syrian authorities.
On Wednesday, the Lebanese army said it had rescued 55 people from a broken boat in the country’s territorial waters, which had been towed ashore.
And last April, a migrant ship from an area near Tripoli sank when it was intercepted by the Lebanese navy off the country’s coast. There were about 80 Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian immigrants aboard the ship.
Forty of the people on board were rescued, while seven were confirmed dead and another 30 are still officially missing.
The Lebanese journalist Musafa al-Sayed said in an interview with the site "Sky News Arabia" In Akkar, I "One citizen who survived drowning off the island of Arwad is called Wissam al-Talawi, according to eyewitnesses.".
On the other hand, the Radio "Sham Fm" The Syrian government, on Thursday evening, cited the statements of the survivors "The boat left Lebanon a few days ago with the intention of emigrating and has different nationalities.
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Cyrusli quoted survivors who said so the boat It started from Minya in the north Lebanon A few days ago, he added that those on board were of different nationalities.
He also said that the search operations are continuing in the midst of difficult conditions due to the waves the sea Strong and strong wind, according to Reuters.
Lebanon has seen a rise in immigration rates, driven by one of the world’s deepest economic crises since the 1850s.
In addition to Lebanese immigrants, there are also refugees from Syria and Palestine who venture on the perilous journey on immigration boats.
At the beginning of Thursday, dozens of people in the northern city of Tripoli organized a protest with the aim of alerting the authorities that they had lost contact with a boat carrying dozens of migrants.
Reuters was unable to confirm whether the boat was the same as the one indicated by the Syrian authorities.
On Wednesday, the Lebanese army said it had rescued 55 people from a broken boat in the country’s territorial waters, which had been towed ashore.
And last April, a migrant ship from an area near Tripoli sank when it was intercepted by the Lebanese navy off the country’s coast. There were about 80 Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian immigrants aboard the ship.
Forty of the people on board were rescued, while seven were confirmed dead and another 30 are still officially missing.
The Lebanese journalist, Musaffa al-Sayed, said, in connection with the “Sky News Arabia” website in Akkar, that “a drowning survivor off the island of Arwad, and his name is Wissam al- Talawi, according to eyewitnesses there, and informed his family in the city of Qarqif, Akkar, in northern Lebanon, that his wife and four children did not. They are still missing. “
For its part, the Syrian radio “Sham FM”, on Thursday evening, quoted the survivors as saying that “the boat left Lebanon a few days ago with the intention of emigrating and has several nationalities.
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