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| Migrant crisis: Libya boats search for more bodies | Migrant crisis: Libya boats search for more bodies |
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| Fishing boats off the Libyan coast are searching for more bodies after two migrant vessels capsized on Thursday. | Fishing boats off the Libyan coast are searching for more bodies after two migrant vessels capsized on Thursday. |
| Around 200 people are feared to have drowned as they tried to cross from Zuwara, west of Tripoli, to Italy. | Around 200 people are feared to have drowned as they tried to cross from Zuwara, west of Tripoli, to Italy. |
| The victims include Syrians, Bangladeshis and people from sub-Saharan Africa. | The victims include Syrians, Bangladeshis and people from sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Police in Italy have detained 10 suspected traffickers after 52 people were found dead in the hold of a ship off the coast of Libya on Wednesday. | Police in Italy have detained 10 suspected traffickers after 52 people were found dead in the hold of a ship off the coast of Libya on Wednesday. |
| The United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR) says more than 2,500 people have died trying to reach Europe so far in 2015, not including Thursday's deaths. | |
| Meanwhile Austrian police have confirmed that 71 people died inside a refrigerated lorry found abandoned on a motorway near the Hungarian border. They think that at least some of the dead were from Syria. | |
| A Bangladeshi diplomat told the BBC that at least five Bangladeshi nationals, including a six-month-old baby, were among the dead from Thursday's sinkings. | A Bangladeshi diplomat told the BBC that at least five Bangladeshi nationals, including a six-month-old baby, were among the dead from Thursday's sinkings. |
| They were among a group of four families from Bangladesh, 31 people in total, Mozammel Haque said. | They were among a group of four families from Bangladesh, 31 people in total, Mozammel Haque said. |
| "Luckily, [the] others had life jackets on, so they managed to stay afloat throughout the night," he said. | |
| The Libyan coast-guard worked overnight on Thursday to search for survivors from the latest tragedy. | The Libyan coast-guard worked overnight on Thursday to search for survivors from the latest tragedy. |
| But Libya is poorly equipped to carry out rescue operations as the boats available to its coast-guard are small, BBC North Africa correspondent Rana Jawad reports from Tunis. | But Libya is poorly equipped to carry out rescue operations as the boats available to its coast-guard are small, BBC North Africa correspondent Rana Jawad reports from Tunis. |
| It mostly uses fishing vessels, tugs and inflatables, reports say. | It mostly uses fishing vessels, tugs and inflatables, reports say. |
| Meanwhile officials in Palermo investigating the deaths of 52 migrants found dead in a boat's hold on Wednesday have detained 10 of the 571 survivors brought ashore, on suspicion of murder, Rai TV reports. | |
| Prosecutor Maurizio Scalia told AP that those detained included seven Moroccans, two Syrians and a Libyan. | |
| A Swedish coastguard ship, the Poseidon, working with the EU's Frontex border agency, brought the survivors and the bodies to the Sicilian port. | |
| Melissa Fleming from the UNHCR said survivors had recounted being charged money just to come out of the hold and breathe. | |
| One survivor said migrants were beaten with sticks to keep them in the hold, she said. |