MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's president, prime minister and speaker of parliament have issued a joint condolence to the nation on Monday over an unconfirmed report that some migrants may have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on a trip from Libya to Italy. Reports of the drownings are circulating among families and on social media but so far remain unconfirmed by coast guard authorities in Italy, Greece, Libya or Egypt. Somalia's state radio quoted the Somali embassy in Egypt when reporting the incident. The joint statement from the Somali leaders said that 400 migrants, mostly Somalis, drowned when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on a trip from Libya to Italy. But the...
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