Published : 27-07-2017
More than a dozen dead bodies have been recovered from a rubber dinghy crammed with 167 people off the coast of Libya.
Among the 13 dead, thought to be refugees fleeing bloody warfare, were pregnant women, according to Spanish rescue group Proactiva Open Arms.
The overcrowded boat was reportedly found drifting on 24 July near the people-smuggling hub of Sabratha, west of Libya.
Images from the boat show corpses lying on the deck, demonstrating the grim reality for migrants on the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers said they heard children crying and calling out for their mothers as they boarded the boat.
Thousands of refugees, among them Palestinians, have died crossing the Mediterranean to Europe this year.
More than a dozen dead bodies have been recovered from a rubber dinghy crammed with 167 people off the coast of Libya.
Among the 13 dead, thought to be refugees fleeing bloody warfare, were pregnant women, according to Spanish rescue group Proactiva Open Arms.
The overcrowded boat was reportedly found drifting on 24 July near the people-smuggling hub of Sabratha, west of Libya.
Images from the boat show corpses lying on the deck, demonstrating the grim reality for migrants on the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers said they heard children crying and calling out for their mothers as they boarded the boat.
Thousands of refugees, among them Palestinians, have died crossing the Mediterranean to Europe this year.