At least 74 migrants die as Europe-bound boat capsizes off Libya’s coast

Life jackets litter the beach off the coast of Libya near the port of al-Khums Picture: Hussein Ben Mosa/ IOM 2020 via AP

At least 74 migrants drowned after their Europe-bound ship capsized off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency said, in the latest in a series of at least eight shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean since last month.

The boat was carrying over 120 migrants, including women and children, when it capsized off the coast of the Libyan port of al-Khums, said the International Organisation for Migration.