Several hundred feared dead as two migrant boats sink off coast of Libya

The toll could rise to several hundred after two boats packed with migrants sank just miles off the Libyan coast. One of the boats had about 50 people on board and, had signaled for help. The second boat, with about 400 passengers, capsized later.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 28 August 2015.

The Libyan coast guard managed to rescue around 200 people, who have been sent to a detention facility in Sabratha, west of Tripoli. The migrants are believed to be from sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan, Syria, Morocco and Bangladesh.
In an earlier incident, the Swedish navy ship Poseidon had found the bodies of 51 migrants dead due to suffocation below the deck of a boat off Libya's coast. Poseidon was already engaged in rescuing 130 migrants from a raft when it got a call to assist a nearby wooden vessel.
Zuwara, Libya's most western town located near the Tunisian border, is a major launchpad for smugglers who ship out migrants who are desperate to flee the conflict and poverty and seek shelter in Italy.
More than 2,300 deaths have already been reported so far this year in their attempts to reach Europe by sea. The corresponding figure was 3,279 in the past 12 months, as per the International Organisation for Migration. Thousands of migrants and refugees are travelling daily between Greece to Hungary hoping for a better life in the European Union.
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