Twenty African migrants are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya when their boat sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, while more bodies washed ashore on Libyan beaches from a shipwreck earlier this week.
Earlier this week, coast guards and Spanish charity Open Arms were involved in two other rescues where several migrants drowned. A video by Open Arms showed a Guinean mother crying out for her six-month-old baby who died in one of the wrecks. Fisherman and the coast guard had earlier recovered 31 bodies from the first wreck, including a toddler.
They need to stop these boats from leaving. Somebody has to be done...
Migrants? Not sure we can have a sensible conversation without getting the nomenclature right. You see refugees, economic migrants, asylum seekers, boat people, illegal immigrants, people smugglers etc...