The Lebanese ministry of foreign affairs and expatriates announced that 21 Lebanese died and 29 others were missed after an Australia-bound boat carrying Middle Eastern asylum-seekers sank off Indonesia.

The Lebaneseministry of foreign affairs and expatriates announced that 21 Lebanese died and 29 others were missed after an Australia-bound boat carrying Middle Eastern asylum-seekers sank off Indonesia.

Care-taker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, said Saturday from Tripoli that work should intensify to retrieve the bodies of Lebanese who drowned on the Indonesian ferry heading illegally to Australia, as well as bring back the survivors.

A delegation from Aakar, headed by Mufti of Aakar Sheikh Zeid Bakkar, visited Mikati today and was joined by a delegation from Qabeet, from whence most of the ferryboat victims hail.