Three survivors were also found, said a local Safe Manager. Since the beginning of 2021, about 1,500 migrants have died off Libya, according to the international organization for migration.
Le Monde with AFP
The bodies of twenty-eight migrants were discovered, Saturday, December 25, on the west coast of Libya, after the sinking of their boat, has been learned from a safe source. “Red Crescent teams recovered twenty-eight dead migrants and found three survivors, two distinct locations on Al-Allous’s beaches,” 90 kilometers from the Capital Tripoli, explained a local secure manager. At the France-Press agency (AFP).
“The state of the advanced decomposition bodies indicates that the sinking occurred a few days ago,” he added. Images disseminated by the local press show the bodies aligned with the shore and arranged in mortuary bags.
EN 2021, 1,500 dead off the Libyan west coast
This drama occurs a few days after the death announcement of 160 migrants in one week after the sinking of their boats off the Libyan west coast, wearing 1,500 the number of deaths on this road since the beginning of year, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
More than 30,000 migrants have also been rescued or intercepted since the beginning of 2021 off the Libyan coast, according to IOM. The North African country is an important way for tens of thousands of migrants seeking every year to gain Europe by the Italian coast, apart from some 300 kilometers. Majoritarily from the countries of Saharan Africa, exile candidates are the prey of traffickers, when they do not die while trying through the crossing.
Diving in a major political crisis after the fall of the Muammar Gaddafi regime in 2011, Libya has been facing multiple criticisms for migrants’ ill-treatment.