At least four dead after migrant boats sink in Mediterranean

The Libyan Red Crescent says two boats carrying nearly 100 migrants attempting to reach Europe capsized.

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Those confirmed to have died by the Libyan Red Crescent so far were all passengers in a boat carrying 26 Bangladeshi nationals.

The humanitarian group did not say whether there were further fatalities among passengers in a second boat which sank while carrying around 70 mostly Sudanese people.

The boats were using the central Mediterranean route between North Africa and Italy, which is the "deadliest known migration route in the world" according to the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The boats had set off from Al Khums, a port city in northwestern Libya, the organisation said.