Migrants in the Med: Over 100 more bodies wash up on Libyan coast

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Migrants in the Med: Over 100 more bodies wash up on Libyan coast

By Luke Barber



Yet more refugees have drowned while attempting passage across the Mediteranean sea from Libya to Europe.

Over 100 bodies including those of two children were washed ashore near the Libyan coastal city of Zuwara, a spokesman for the Libyan navy said on Friday.

Familiar scenes

Colonel Ayoub Gassim told the Associated Press (AP) that at least 107 refugees attempting to cross into Europe had drowned after their boat sank off the Libyan coast.

Libyan coast guards found an empty boat on Thursday and that it was possible the vessel had capsized the day before.

A spokesman for Libya’s Red Crescent, the international humanitarian movement closely affiliated with Red Cross, said that the
the bodies had not yet decomposed, indicating that they had drowned within the past 48 hours.

Hundreds more missing off Crete

Around 340 refugees were rescued from the sea 75 nautical miles off the southern coast of Crete, although at least four people were confirmed dead and many hundreds could still be missing.

The boat that capsized measured some 25 metres in length and can be assumed to have been carrying up to 700 migrants.

On Tuesday, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said that over 880 people had drowned in the Mediteranean in the past week.

Added to the latest numbers, this takes the death toll to over 1000 in recent days.

Bad weather has prevented authorities from intercepting boats making the crossing from North Africa to Italy. Departures have surged in recent months, with people smugglers charging hundreds of dollars for a place on vessels, which are often flimsy, inflatable crafts.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-06-04

[jaidam]

Just look at the death toll caused by Merkel unilaterally ripping up the law book on refugees, borders and immigration and cancelling the Dublin convention of refugees. She must have more deaths on her hands now than Vlad the Impaler. One last time, stop inviting them illegally and stop the free shuttle services betwixt Africa and Italy which act as a giant magnet. Come on, this is not rocket science.

[biggles45]

Yes, most are not 'refugees' fleeing war or persecution. Look at the images in the media, probably 90% are single adult males who do not have any right to decide that they are going to unilaterally move to another country because they dont like it where they are living.

[ddavidovsky]

The politicians are above all terrified of appearing to be racist and that has driven them to this catastrophic multiculturalism.

That's a legacy of European history. There's no legitimate far-right position because it immediately gets equated with Nazism.

As usual, we can blame Hitler.