Dozens missing in the sinking of a migrant boat in front of the Libyan coast

He added that 41 migrants survived because they were wearing lifejackets and were saved.

According to survivor reports, there were 104 people aboard the boat that sank off the coast of Qara Bolle, about 50 km east of Tripoli.

The spokesman added that "the Coast Guard has not found a body at this location".

The spokesman explained that in addition to these survivors, a Libyan Coast Guard vessel carrying 235 migrants rescued in two separate operations in the same area was moored to Tripoli whose 54 children and 29 women.

In recent months, this region has become the main starting point for inflatable boats loaded with migrants risking their lives in this dangerous journey in the hope of reaching Italy.

On Friday, the bodies of three children were found and a hundred migrants, including women and children, were reported missing after their boat sank off the coast of Qara Bulli.

A thousand people died on average this year

According to the International Organization for Migration, the record of the past few days has been increased to a thousand people who have died on average in 2018.

Belbeisi to "an alarming increase in the number of deaths in the sea off the Libyan coast."

"Traffickers profit from the desperation of migrants and their desire to leave before Europe launches other campaigns on transit routes in the Mediterranean."

"Detainees must not be transferred by the Coast Guard to custody, we are deeply concerned about the overcrowding of detention centers and the deterioration of living conditions with the recent arrival of migrants".

Brigadier General Ayoub Kbadem warned last week that migrant smugglers had stepped up their flights in anticipation of the closure of the European border after Rome prevented vessels from non-governmental organizations from entering the country. its ports.

The Libyan Coast Guard has since Friday had the relief or objection of a thousand or so immigrants.

After the arrival of these immigrants on land, the Libyan authorities transferred them to detention centers.

The Director General of the International Organization for Migration Visits the Detention Centers in Libya

The International Organization for Migration reports that its Director General, William Lacy Swing , will visit Tripoli this week. Libyan Coast Guard ashore. "

" IOM is committed to ensuring respect for the human rights of all migrants. "

The organization carries out a voluntary repatriation program that allowed the repatriation of Nine thousand migrants from Libya in the first six months of 2018.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) expelled some 20,000 illegal immigrants last year and hopes to increase that number to 30 thousand in 2018.

France 24 / AFP