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Reuters
More than 1500 migrants have died crossing the Mediterranean so far this year
More than 100 migrants died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast earlier this month, according to a humanitarian agency.
According to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), on September 1, two inflatable boats were launched, but one of the ships deflated and sank.
The 276 survivors were eventually taken to the Libyan port city of Khoms, about 100 km southeast of the capital Tripoli.
MSF says the group is currently being held "in arbitrary detention".
Survivors, including pregnant women, children and infants, have been treated by MSF for pneumonia or burns due to fuel leakage.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 1,500 migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean so far this year.
Many others have been saved, although Italy, the first destination of migrants from Libya, has recently begun to refuse the entry of migrant ships.
Concerns remain for those returned to Libya by the country's coastguard, reports revealing that migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been kidnapped for ransom or sold as slaves in the North African country .
Libya remains volatile since the overthrow of longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Hundreds of migrants in detention had to be displaced after the deadly clashes in Tripoli in late August, while gunmen also attacked the National Oil Corporation on 10 September.
