More than 60 people have died after a boat carrying migrants towards Europe capsized in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The boat, which has 86 migrants <\/a>on board, got into serious trouble off the Libyan coast on Saturday evening when strong waves overwhelmed it near the western town of Zuwara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women and children were among the 61 migrants who died, the UN\u2019s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe central Mediterranean continues to be one of the world\u2019s most dangerous migration routes,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Flavio di Giacomo, a spokesperson for the IOM, said: \u201cOver 2250 people have lost their lives in the Central Med this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA dramatic number which unfortunately demonstrates that not enough is being done to save lives at sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Libya is the most popular departure point into the Mediterranean for people looking to migrate from Africa and the Middle East into Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many are fleeing wars, while others are seeking a better life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The country is politically unstable, which has benefited human traffickers, who smuggle in migrants across the country\u2019s borders with six countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They are then crammed into boats that are often unseaworthy, including rubber dinghies, and launched into the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People who are caught and taken back to Libya are held in government-run detention centres rife with abuses, including forced labour, beatings, rapes and torture which amount to crimes against humanity, according to UN-commissioned investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It comes after Rishi Sunak visited Italy<\/a> to discuss the problem of irregular migration<\/a> into the UK..<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Prime Minister made a speech in which he said that \u201cenemies\u201d want to use migration as a \u201cweapon\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added: \u201cIf we do not tackle this problem, the numbers will only grow. It will overwhelm our countries and our capacity to help those who actually need our help the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf that requires us to update our laws and lead an international conversation to amend the post-war frameworks around asylum, then we must do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBecause if we don\u2019t fix this problem now, the boats will keep coming and more lives will be lost at sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n LBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than 60 people have died after a boat carrying migrants towards Europe capsized in the Mediterranean. The boat, which has 86 migrants on board, got into serious trouble off the Libyan… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_205606689_205606689":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}