“MOUNTAINS of corpses” are growing in front of Europe’s walls, refugee rescuers warned today after 45 more people died in a shipwreck off the Libyan Coast.

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced the deaths in a joint statement on Wednesday night.

“Some 37 survivors — mainly from Senegal, Mali, Chad and Ghana — were rescued by local fishermen and later detained upon disembarkation,” they said.