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Egypt's state news agency says the total number of bodies pulled from the Mediterranean waters off the Egyptian coast has climbed to 148, three days after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized.

MENA quotes Wahdan el-Sayyed, the spokesman of the Nile Delta province of Beheira, as saying on Sept. 23 that the search operation is still ongoing for more bodies of victims.

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