Several Europe-bound migrants drown off Libya coast: UN

IOM says ‘continuous loss of life calls for an urgent change in approach to the situation in Libya and the Central Med’.

At least 11 people drowned when a rubber dinghy carrying two dozen Europe-bound migrants capsized off Libya, the UN migration agency said. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the tragedy took place on Sunday near the western town of Zawiya. The Libyan coastguard saved the lives of 12 migrants, it said in a Twitter post. “The continuous loss of life calls for an urgent change in approach to the situation in Libya and the Central Med,” the IOM tweeted.