• Libya Four hundred people heading to their deaths in an old fishing boat

  • Refugees From escaping the war and surviving the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean, to jail in Italy

The teams of the Red Crescent in Libya recovered, on Saturday night,

the bodies of 28 immigrants off the coast of Tripoli

, after their boat sank in that coastal area, a security source informed this Sunday to Efe local.

According to the source, 18 bodies were found in Al Alus, east of Tripoli,

while another 10, including two women and a baby, were found near that same town

. "The bodies seemed to be in a state of decomposition, which explains that the boat that was transporting the irregular immigrants capsized a few days ago," explained

the same source, who indicated that the number of people drowned at sea

could increase in the coming hours.

Barge departures from the Libyan coast to Europe, mainly Italy, have not stopped in recent weeks.

A few days ago 160 migrants drowned off the coast of the Maghreb country,

which raised more than 1,500 people who have lost their lives throughout 2021 on the so-called "Central Mediterranean migration route", one of the deadliest in the world. world, compared to 970 last year, according to the International Organization for Migration.

More

than 31,500 people

were intercepted

off the coast of Libya

since the beginning of this year

when they tried to travel irregularly to Europe and returned to Libya, compared to 11,900 in 2020, according to data from the same organization.

Libyan Navy

Migrants bound for Europe who are intercepted by the Libyan army even in international waters and are returned to the Libyan coast where they are held in detention centers in conditions denounced by NGOs and the United Nations.

According to figures from the

Missing Migrants

project

, linked to the UN,

nearly 19,000 people have perished in the Mediterranean since the migration crisis began to be computed in 2014

.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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