At least 50 dead after vessel carrying Sudanese refugees catches fire

In the Mediterranean Sea, astatine slightest 2,452 migrants oregon refugees died oregon went missing past year.

At slightest 50 radical person died aft a vas carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught occurrence adjacent the Libyan seashore connected Sunday, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The United Nations migration bureau said connected Tuesday that it has provided aesculapian enactment to 24 survivors.

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“Urgent enactment is needed to extremity specified tragedies astatine sea,” IOM’s Libya section posted connected X.

Last month, astatine slightest 68 refugees and migrants died and dozens went missing aft a vessel capsized disconnected the seashore of Yemen, according to the IOM.

At slightest 2,452 migrants oregon refugees died oregon went missing successful the Mediterranean Sea past year, according to the IOM, making it 1 of the deadliest routes for refugees.

Libya has emerged arsenic a transit way for migrants oregon refugees trying to scope Europe since the autumn of Libyan person Muammar Gaddafi successful 2011.

During Gaddafi’s rule, African migrants recovered enactment successful the oil-rich country. But since his ouster, the North African state has been mired successful equipped struggle among rival militias.

Libya is location to astir 867,055 migrants.