More than 240 migrants have drowned in two shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, it has emerged. Both of the overcrowded rubber dinghies overturned in heavy seas about 25 miles off the coast of Libya killing most of those on board, survivors said. More than 240 migrants have drowned in two shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, it has emerged. Smugglers are using rubber dinghies because they are cheaper and easier to obtain. More migrants are arriving with severe burns from being exposed to fuel mixed with sea water in the bottom of the dinghies.

Source: Libya Today November 03, 2016 13:40 UTC