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EU border policies have turned the sea into a refugee graveyard, civil migrant rescue fleet charges
The body of one of the people who died in a shipwreck roughly six miles from the Italian island of Lampedusa lies on the seabed [Italian Coastguard]

THE EU’s border policies have turned the Mediterranean Sea into a refugee graveyard, NGOs charged today after photos emerged of some of the people who died in a recent shipwreck six miles off the coast of Lampedusa. 

The people pictured on the sea bed by the Italian coastguard drowned after the wooden boat carrying approximately 70 people sank on October 6.

It is not known how many people perished that night but only about 40 people were rescued. 

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