INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Ninety migrants are feared drowned after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast, says the UN's migration agency.
Three survivors said most of those who drowned were Pakistani nationals.
Libya has for years been a major transit route for migrants trying to reach southern Europe by sea.
But last year the EU reached a controversial deal to provide help to the Libyan coastguard to stop the flow of boats carrying migrants and refugees to Italy.
Aid agencies and the UN accused European governments of taking an inhuman approach.
EU governments complicit in migrant torture in Libya, says Amnesty
"Ten bodies are reported to have washed up on Libyan shores," the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement.
Migrant crisis: Scores feared drowned off Libyan coast
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Posted on: 13:38 Fri, 02 February 2018
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