Officials say 110 people were on board the boat(CNN) -- Nearly 100 people are missing after a boat carrying migrants wrecked in the waters between Libya and Italy, the International Organization for Migration said Saturday. Many migrants have died trying to make the perilous trip from North Africa to Europe, with Libya being a popular jumping-off point. "Bodies washing up in Libya is something we often see preceded by a large shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean," Julia Black, who works with the organization's Missing Migrants Project in Berlin, said earlier this year. 2016 closed out as the deadliest year for migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, the group said. More than 380,000 migrants made the trip to Europe successfully last year, according to the group.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 15, 2017 09:43 UTC