Funerals held in Lebanon’s Tripoli for boat crash victims as search continues

BEIRUT: APRIL. 26 – The families of the seven victims of a boat accident held funerals in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli on Monday as rescue and search efforts continue for the missing.

A boat en route from Tripoli to Cyprus sank on Saturday night off Lebanon’s northern coast. The boat carried dozens of illegal immigrants from Lebanon, Palestine and Syria.