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		</div><p>Up to 150 Europe-bound migrants were missing and feared drowned after the boats they were travelling in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the coast guard and the UN refugee agency said.</p>
<p>Ayoub Gassim, a spokesman for Libya’s coast guard, said two boats carrying around 300 migrants capsized around 75 miles east of the capital, Tripoli.</p>
<p>Around 137 migrants were rescued and returned to Libya, he said, and the coast guard has recovered just one body so far.</p>
<p>Charlie Yaxley, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency, said 147 had been saved.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">If estimated figures are correct, this is the largest loss of life on the central Med in 2019.</p>
<p>A reminder, if it was needed, that there MUST be a shift in approach to the Mediterranean situation. </p>
<p>Urgent need to save lives at sea. <a href="https://t.co/wTl7Thwzru">https://t.co/wTl7Thwzru</a></p>
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<p><em>“We estimate that 150 migrants are potentially missing and died at sea,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>After the uprising that toppled and killed Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya became a major conduit for African migrants and refugees seeking a better life in Europe.</p>
<p>Traffickers and armed groups have exploited Libya’s chaos since his overthrow, and have been implicated in widespread abuses of migrants, including torture and abduction for ransom.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, the Libyan coast guard intercepted around three dozen migrants off the coast and took them to a detention centre near Tripoli where an airstrike killed more than 50 people earlier this month.</p>
<p>Over 200 detainees are still being held at the Tajoura detention centre, near the front lines of fighting between rival Libyan factions.</p>
<p>The UN has expressed concern for their safety.</p>
<p>In recent years the European Union has partnered with the coast guard and other Libyan forces to prevent migrants from making the dangerous journey by sea to Europe.</p>
<p>Rights groups say those efforts have left migrants at the mercy of brutal armed groups or confined in squalid detention centres that lack adequate food and water.</p>
<p>At least 2,500 migrants are detained in centres in and around Tripoli, where forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter have been battling an array of militias loosely aligned with a UN-recognised government since April.</p>
<p>The government blamed the airstrike on the detention centre on Mr Hifter’s forces, which denied responsibility and accused government-linked militias of storing weapons at the facility.</p>
<p>The UN refugee agency says 164 migrants have died travelling from Libya to Europe since the start of the year, fewer than in previous years.</p>
<p>But the UN says the journey is becoming more dangerous for those who attempt it, with one out of four perishing at sea before reaching Europe.</p>
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