Two more bodies of Egyptian migrants were recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Tripoli, Libya on Thursday, Mahmoud Zahran, undersecretary of the Health Ministry in Matrouh Governorate, said.
A ship carrying illegal Egyptian migrants capsized on Sunday. Libyan authorities said that the boat was carrying around 40 illegal migrants and sank off Libya's east coast near the border with Egypt.
"One of the bodies has been identified,” Zahran said in a press statement, naming the man as 23-year-old Mohamed Gamal Diab from the village of Mina al-Hait in Fayoum Governorate.
“Diab’s relatives, who were among the victims' families who flocked to Salloum on the Libyan border to find out the fate of their children, identified him," Zahran added.
The body was handed over to Diab's family.
He said the second corpse has not been identified and is being kept at Salloum Central Hospital.
The Navy recovered 10 other bodies on Wednesday evening. Nineteen bodies have been found so far.
Egypt on Monday launched search and rescue operations with the help of Libyan coastal authorities after dozens of people were feared drowned in the accident.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
