Police in Libya have recovered the bodies of five asylum seekers that washed ashore near the capital, Tripoli, as authorities in Greece announced the deaths of three others in a separate incident off the coast of Crete.<\/p>\n
The bodies in Libya were found on Saturday by residents of the coastal town of Qasr al-Akhyar, according to a police officer.<\/p>\n
Hassan al-Ghawil, head of investigations \u2060at the Qasr al-Akhyar police station, told the Reuters news agency that the bodies were all of \u201cdark-skinned people\u201d. Two of them were women.<\/p>\n
He said people in the area had reported seeing a child\u2019s body wash ashore before the waves returned it to sea.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe reported to the Red Crescent to \u2060recover the bodies,\u201d said Ghawil. \u201cThe bodies we found are still intact, and we think there are more bodies \u2060to wash ashore.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tragedy came as\u00a0Greek authorities were responding to a separate incident in the eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n
The Athens News Agency reported on Saturday that authorities had recovered three bodies and rescued at least 20 people after a wooden boat carrying migrants and asylum seekers capsized off the coast of Crete.<\/p>\n
Most of the survivors were Egyptians and Sudanese people, the agency reported. They also included four minors.<\/p>\n
According to the Greek public broadcaster ERT, the wooden boat capsized when passengers were trying to climb up the ladders during a rescue effort involving a commercial ship.<\/p>\n
The search for survivors was continuing with four patrol boats, an aircraft, and two ships from the European border agency Frontex, a spokesperson for the Greek coastguard told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
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