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Survivors accuse the navy of deliberately sinking the ship, as it tried to stop the migrants.
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The sinking of the migrants' boat has put the Lebanese government further on the defensive, at a time when the country is in economic free fall and public trust in the state and its institutions is rapidly crumbling. They said in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald in late July that an anonymous donor had given just over $295,000 to lease the submarine from an India-registered company. Tripoli lawmaker Ashraf Rifi facilitated the arrival of the submarine for the cash-strapped country through the Australian charity AusRelief, its Lebanese-Australian chairman Tom Zreika and his own brother, Jamal Rifi, who lives in Sydney. “It shouldn’t have to take four months to do this,” Dinnawi said after returning to shore. The navy said it would try later this week.ĭinnawi was disappointed but also angry that the authorities hadn't taken swifter action to retrieve the bodies. “They are mostly women and children inside, because it was really humid that night," Dinnawi told The Associated Press, explaining that the men volunteered to stand on deck to make room for women and children below deck.īut due to heavy winds and a high tide Monday, the small, 3-person underwater craft, a Pisces VI submarine, could not be launched. Bilal Hussein/AP Show More Show LessĪbout 30 bodies of the approximately 80 people who were on board are still believed to be trapped inside the sunken vessel, including Samar’s. Survivors accuse the army of sinking the ship, but the army claims the boat crashed into them. The Lebanese Army said in a statement the high tide made it difficult to properly dispatch the submarine.
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Bilal Hussein/AP Show More Show Less 5 of8 Lebanese naval forces and technical personnel prepare to dispatch a submarine into the Mediterranean Sea to attempt to recover an estimated 30 bodies some 450 meters below the surface inside a migrant ship that sunk at night four months ago about five km (3.1 miles) outside the the port of Tripoli, under disputed circumstances disputed, northern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. Bilal Hussein/AP Show More Show Lessģ of8 4 of8 Lebanese naval forces and technical personnel prepare to dispatch a submarine into the Mediterranean Sea to attempt to recover an estimated 30 bodies some 450 meters below the surface inside a migrant ship that sunk at night four months ago about five km (3.1 miles) outside the the port of Tripoli, under disputed circumstances disputed, northern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. Bilal Hussein/AP Show More Show Less 2 of8 Lebanese naval forces and technical personnel prepare to dispatch a submarine into the Mediterranean Sea to attempt to recover an estimated 30 bodies some 450 meters below the surface inside a migrant ship that sunk at night four months ago about five km (3.1 miles) outside the the port of Tripoli, under disputed circumstances disputed, northern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 1 of8 Survivors with family members of a sunken migrant ship watch from a navy boat as Lebanese naval forces and technical personnel prepare to dispatch a submarine into the Mediterranean Sea to attempt to recover an estimated 30 bodies some 450 meters below the surface inside a migrant ship that sunk at night four months ago about five km (3.1 miles) outside the the port of Tripoli, under disputed circumstances disputed, northern Lebanon, Monday, Aug.