UN says 15 Europe-bound migrants die at sea off Libya
The boat began to sink early Sunday and the Libyan coast guard managed to rescue at least 95 migrants, together with six ladies and two kids, she stated.
Msehli stated most of the survivors suffered from burns from engine gasoline, and hypothermia, with some taken to hospital.
“It is an additional tragedy that in most cases, there is very little search to recover the bodies. The sight of bodies washing ashore later has sadly become too familiar,” she added.
Sunday’s shipwreck was the most recent alongside the Central Mediterranean migration route. At least 41 migrants have been reported lifeless final week, a part of a bunch of some 120 migrants on a dinghy that left the North African nation on Feb. 18.
Libya has change into the foremost transit level for African and Arab migrants hoping to achieve Europe, after the North African nation plunged right into a bloody civil conflict following a NATO-backed rebellion that toppled and killed longtime ruler Moammar (*15*) in 2011.
Smugglers usually pack determined households into ill-equipped rubber boats that stall and founder alongside the perilous Central Mediterranean route. Over the final a number of years, a whole lot of 1000’s of migrants have reached Europe both on their very own or after being rescued at sea.
Thousands have drowned alongside the way in which. Others have been intercepted and returned to Libya to be left at the mercy of armed teams or confined in squalid detention facilities that lack enough meals and water, based on rights teams.
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