The corpses immigrants drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean heading for Europe washed up on its shores Libya, announced the Libyan Ministry of Interior and the local Red Crescent.
The Red Crescent in the western Libyan port city of Homs announced that 17 bodies, including an infant, had been retrieved from a nearby shore and that another 10 bodies had been found on another shore in the area.
According to the Libyan Interior Ministry, which speaks of 14 dead, they come from a group of 60 migrants who are missing at sea.
He was at sea for about a day, said the director of Homs Hospital.
Libya is a transit point for migrants from African countries heading to Europe.
Large numbers of people tried to cross the Mediterranean this year following the relatively low numbers that followed the 2015 migration crisis. About 1,500 drowned during 2021, according to the United Nations International Organization for Migration.
Crossing the central Mediterranean is the deadliest route of global migration, with more than 17,000 dead and missing since 2014.
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