Four killed after two boats carrying migrants capsize off Libya’s coast

Libyan Red Crescent says it rescued 91 migrants and asylum seekers from Bangladesh, Sudan and Egypt.

At slightest 4 radical person been killed erstwhile 2 boats carrying migrants and asylum seekers capsized disconnected Libya’s coast, according to the Libyan Red Crescent.

In a connection connected Saturday, the organisation said the incidental occurred disconnected the coastal metropolis of al-Khums connected Thursday night.

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It said the archetypal vessel was carrying 26 radical from Bangladesh, 4 of whom died.

The 2nd vessel carried 69 people, including 2 Egyptians and dozens of Sudanese, the Red Crescent added, without specifying their fate. Eight of them were children, it said.

Al-Khums is simply a coastal city, immoderate 118km (73 miles) eastbound of the capital, Tripoli.

Libya has go a transit way for migrants and asylum seekers fleeing struggle and poorness to Europe since the 2011 autumn of dictator Muammar Gaddafi during a NATO-backed uprising.

Pictures released by the Libyan Red Crescent showed a enactment of bodies successful achromatic integrative bags laid retired connected the floor, portion the volunteers are seen providing archetypal assistance to the survivors.

Other pictures amusement the rescued radical wrapped successful thermal blankets sitting connected the floor.

The connection added that coastguards and Al-Khums Port Security Agency participated successful the rescue operation. Adding that the bodies were handed implicit to the applicable authorities based connected instructions by the city’s nationalist prosecution.

On Wednesday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that astatine slightest 42 migrants went missing and were presumed dormant aft a rubber vessel sank adjacent the Al Buri oilfield, an offshore installation north-northwest of the Libyan coast.

In mid-October, a radical of 61 bodies of migrants were recovered connected the seashore westbound of Tripoli. In September, IOM said astatine slightest 50 radical had died aft a vas carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught occurrence disconnected Libya’s coast.

Several states, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Norway and Sierra Leone, urged Libya past week astatine a United Nations gathering successful Geneva to adjacent detention centres wherever rights groups accidental migrants and refugees person been tortured, abused and sometimes killed.