Malta Boat Sinking 'Leaves 500 Dead' - IOM

About 500 migrants are feared dead after their ship was rammed by another boat near Malta last week, a migration body said.

Two Palestinian survivors told the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) that the boat, which left Damietta in Egypt in early September, had been intentionally sunk by traffickers, BBC reports.

According to the IOM more than 2,500 people are now believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean this year.

News of the sinking near Malta emerged as another vessel carrying 250 people sank off the coast of Libya.

Over 200 people are feared to have drowned in that incident.

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