Libya shipwreck: At least 73 migrants presumed dead

At slightest 73 migrants are missing and "presumed dead" aft their vessel sank disconnected the Libyan coast, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

Only 7 survivors made it backmost to the enactment pursuing Tuesday's shipwreck, the IOM said.

So acold 11 bodies person been recovered.

Libya has go a launching constituent for those trying to scope Europe, and much than 130 radical person already died this twelvemonth making the unsafe journey.

The IOM added that much than 1,450 deaths were recorded by its Missing Migrants Project past year.