(Photo: David Ramos)The bodies of 74 migrants washed ashore on the Libyan coast after their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea, aid workers said Tuesday. The Libyan Red Crescent said the bodies were recovered in the northwestern coastal city of Zawiya. Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the U.N. Migration Agency, said their dinghy departed from the western city of Sabratha on Saturday with 110 people aboard. Red Crescent spokesman Mohammed al-Misrati told the Associated Press the bodies were found Monday morning and that he expected more to appear. The IOM said Tuesday that 13,170 migrants arrived in Europe by sea so far this year, and 272 were dead or missing.

Source: Libya Today February 21, 2017 10:04 UTC