European states urged to stop ignoring refugee deaths after at least six drown and 700 others are returned to Libya
Aid workers for the International Organisation for Migration provide assistance to migrants who were intercepted off the Libyan coast, at the Abu Sitta disembarkation point in Tripoli, Sunday, May 9, 2021
EUROPEAN states can no longer ignore refugee deaths in the central Mediterranean, humanitarian organisations said today following more deaths and the return of hundreds to war-torn Libya.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced that at least five people, among them a child, had drowned when their boat capsized off the Libyan coast on Sunday.
Survivors of the shipwreck were brought to shore by fishing-boat crews.
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