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Bodies of 43 would-be migrants wash up on Libyan beaches

 

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Bodies of 43 would-be migrants wash up on Libyan beaches
Libyan Red Crescent workers carry the body of one of the migrants who died after a boat sank off the coastal town of Khoms area east of Tripoli.

Khoms - The victims, reportedly from Africa, were apparently on a boat that capsized near Zliten

By AFP

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Published: Sun 25 Oct 2015, 10:52 PM

Last updated: Mon 26 Oct 2015, 12:57 AM

The bodies of at least 43 people thought to be migrants washed up on Libyan beaches east of the capital Tripoli at the weekend, the Red Crescent said on Sunday.
Twenty-nine bodies were found on Saturday on beaches around the port of Zliten, while another 14 were discovered on Sunday on a beach near the port of Khoms.
"Residents told us about bodies on the beaches around Zliten," Red Crescent spokesman Mohamed Al Misrati said. "We discovered 25 bodies, then another four."
Misrati did not give any further details about the nationality of the deceased, but the Tripoli authorities' official news agency reported that they were from Africa.
The Red Crescent expected to recover several more bodies, the news agency cited Misrati as saying.
Later on Sunday another Red Crescent spokesman, Fawzi Abdel Aal, said 14 bodies were on the Siline beach near Khoms, 120 kilometres east of the capital.
The would-be migrants were all from Africa, he said.
The victims were apparently on a boat that capsized near Zliten, 160 kilometres east of Tripoli.
The North African country, with its 1,770 kilometres of poorly patrolled coastline, is a popular point of departure for migrants seeking to reach Europe.
The most common destination is the Italian island of Lampedusa, barely 300 kilometres away.
More than 600,000 people have reached Europe's shores this year in the continent's worst migration crisis since World War II, according to the International Organisation of Migration.
Of that total more than 3,000 have died or gone missing.
 


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