
The Libyan Red Crescent said the bodies of four children aged between five and 10 had washed ashore west of the capital Tripoli on Wednesday after a migrant boat sank. “We were informed [Wednesday] of a boat that was sinking on the high sea with 30 people on board” in the Zawiya area, the Red Crescent’s Hassan Mokhtar al-Bey told AFP. He said rescue workers discovered three of the bodies near Zawiya, around 45 kilometres from Tripoli, and the fourth a few kilometres further west. The fate of the other passengers, their nationalities and point of departure were as yet unknown. Read also: Libyan…