The UN reported the deaths of 240 migrants off the coast of Libya
Moscow. 3 Nov. INTERFAX.RU — the UN office for refugees announced the deaths of 239 migrants off Libya’s coast as a result of two shipwrecks. On Thursday said the representative of the organization.
According to preliminary data, were natives of West Africa. It is assumed that they were trying to cross the Mediterranean sea on rubber boats. With one ship managed to save 29 people, but the rest of the 120, apparently, died. On another boat known according to the two surviving passengers. It was also more than 120 refugees.
UN officials note that smugglers who arrange the transportation of migrants from Africa to Italy regularly overload the boat and often put them in bad weather.
Given this information, the number of migrants killed this year in the Mediterranean sea, reached 4,200 people.