Photos/Video: Dreadful! Bodies of 74 Italy-bound African migrants wash ashore in Libya

Tragedy struck yesterday, February 20th, as around 74 African migrants drowned after human smugglers intercepted them at sea and stole the motor of their boat at gunpoint, leaving them to their fate. Bodies of the migrants, who were trying to reach Italy, washed up on a beach in the northwestern coastal city of Zawiya, around 60km to the west of Tripoli. Initial figure put the dead at 45,