At least 20 people have perished in a shipwreck In the Mediterranean Sea.
According to the spokesperson of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Safa Msehli, three makeshift boats left the Libyan city of Zawiyah near Tripoli on Sunday and one of them capsized.
Twenty of the people aboard are missing and the remaining 45 people in the other two surviving boards have been returned to shore by the coast guard and kept at a detention centre in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
Msehli added during a briefing on Tuesday that all the migrants were men and majority from Egypt and Morocco.
This year, about 600 people have died in the Mediterranean on a perilous journey to Europe.
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