Lebanese rescue teams search the Mediterranean for survivors after an overloaded boat carrying migrants and asylum seekers capsized while being pursued by naval forces
The tragedy triggered small protests on Sunday, one cutting a main road into Tripoli, another staged outside the morgue where victims' bodies were taken.
At least six people died as a result of the tragedy late on Saturday off the northern port city of Tripoli. Among those laid to rest were Sar ah Ahmed Talib and her 4-year-old daughter from the Bab al Tabbaneh neighborhood of Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-largest city. Mourners wailed from balconies and fired their guns into the air as bodies were carried to the mosque. Dozens attended the funerals while Lebanese army personnel stood guard nearby.The sea accident, Lebanon's worst such disaster in years, ignited widespread public anger just three weeks before parliamentary elections in the small country hit by a severe economic crisis.
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