Bodies of five asylum seekers wash ashore in Libya as three others die in a separate incident off the coast of Greece.
Bodies of five asylum seekers wash ashore in Libya as three others die in a separate incident off the coast of Greece.
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Police in Libya have recovered the bodies of five asylum seekers that washed ashore near the capital, Tripoli, as authorities in Greece announced the deaths of three others in a separate incident off the coast of Crete.
The bodies in Libya were found on Saturday by residents of the coastal town of Qasr al-Akhyar, according to a police officer.
TRIPOLI: At least five bodies of migrants including two women have been washed ashore in َQasr Al-Akhyar, a coastal town in the…
Poor weather and a lack of food and water contributed to the deaths, the Greek coastguard says.
Libyan Red Crescent says it rescued 91 migrants and asylum seekers from Bangladesh, Sudan and Egypt.
Survivors tell coastguard smugglers ordered victims to be thrown overboard after running out of food and water
TRIPOLI: At least 61 bodies of migrants have been recovered over the past two weeks on the coast west of the Libyan capital…
Sea-Watch, a German humanitarian group, says that a migrant drowned in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast.
