TRIPOLI: Rescue workers said on Friday they had plucked the bodies of 62 migrants from waters off the Libyan coast a day after one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean this year.
"The bodies are still floating onto the shore continuously, it's not possible to give a total number," he added. Libyan navy spokesman General Ayoub Kacem said most of the rescued migrants were from Eritrea, although Palestinians and Sudanese were also among the group waiting to be taken on to reception centres.
The migrants had been apparently headed out to sea on three boats lashed together, MSF mission chief Julien Raickman told AFP by telephone on Thursday. MSF nurse Anne-Cecilia Kjaer met with survivors, including some who had"swallowed a lot of sea water and had respiratory" problems.Kjaer said the migrants were already"traumatised" from dangerous journeys across deserts where they were"captured by traffickers, subjected to violence and torture, and saw their loved ones die at sea".
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