Reggio Calabria (Italy), Oct 26 (IANS/AKI) The corpses of 25 migrants who perished in a shipwreck off Libya were due to reach Italy aboard a medical charity’s rescue ship along with 246 migrants picked up from the dinghy and another boat, rescue officials said. Doctors without Borders said it picked 107 survivors from the dinghy some 25 nautical miles from the Libyan coast and recovered the 25 corpses in a “horrific” operation. The bodies of the shipwreck victims were found immersed in water and fuel at the bottom of the dinghy, Doctors without Borders said. Among the 107 rescued survivors from the dinghy, 23 needed medical treatment for chemical burns of which 11 of the cases were severe, Doctors without Borders said. A total 3,740 lives have been lost at sea in 2016 what the UN says is the deadliest year on record.

Source: Libya Today October 26, 2016 18:33 UTC