Red Crescent: At least 74 bodies of migrants wash ashore in LibyaCairo - Scores of bodies, presumably of African migrants, washed ashore in Libya, in the western city of Zawiya on the Mediterranean Sea, Libya's Red Crescent spokesperson said on Tuesday. The bodies washed ashore overnight but there was apparently no sign of a wrecked boat or vessel they had been on. Al-Misrati said the local authorities would take the bodies to a cemetery in the capital of Tripoli that's allocated for unidentified persons. Migrant deaths have risen to record levels along the Libya-Italy smuggling route across the Mediterranean Sea. Rights groups have documented migrants' horror journey which involves torture, rape, and forced labor inside Libya.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 21, 2017 09:56 UTC