41 migrant bodies wash up on Libya beach
DailyMail, a daily from the UK, reported yesterday that the bodies of 41 suspected migrants have washed up on a beach in Libya. They were discovered on the city’s beach west of the capitol Tripoli on Saturday, and the bodies were taken to the morgue for DNA testing before being buried, an official from the coastal city said. According to the official, one or two bodies a day were found regularly and 41 in just one day is “an exceptionally high number”. The group of volunteers who found the bodies was trained by the city council in mid-July to look for victims of people smugglers. Illegal migration from Libya booms in the summer months when the Mediterranean is generally calm and traffickers pack unsafe boats with migrants desperate to start a new life in Europe. The smuggling has taken advantage of the chaos…