A handout image shows a member of International Organization for Migration sitting next to life jackets on the beach in Khums, Libya November 12, 2020. IOM 2020/HUSSEIN BEN MOSA/Handout via REUTERS
GENEVA (Reuters) - Twenty African migrants are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya when their boat sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, while more bodies washed ashore on Libyan beaches on Friday from a shipwreck earlier this week.
The latest shipwreck, a wooden boat that left from Surman in western Libya, is the fourth this week and brings the total death toll to more than 100 people, an International Organization for Migration spokeswoman said.
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