UN: At Least 200 Migrants Dead and Possibly More Off Italy

ROME — Survivors of another deadly Mediterranean crossing reported that at least 200 migrants — and possibly many more — died in frigid temperatures in the open-sea crossing from Libya to Europe, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday.

“The Triton operation doesn’t have as its principal mandate saving human lives, and thus cannot be the response that is urgently needed,” Laurens Jolles, the head of the U.N. agency for southern Europe, said in a statement.

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