Scores of corpses found washed up on beach in Libya

Scores of dead bodies were today found washed ashore on a beach in Libya in the latest shocking migrant tragedy to hit the Mediterranean.

Libya’s Red Crescent aid agency said the bodies of 74 migrants washed ashore in the western Libyan city of Zawiya.

The aid organisation’s spokesman Mohammed al-Misrati said the bodies were found on the Mediterranean coastline this morning.

He said the circumstances involving the drowning of the migrants were not clear yet.

The agency posted on its Twitter account photographs of dozens of bodies in white and black body bags, lined up along the shore.

He also said local authorities would take the bodies to a cemetery in the capital of Tripoli allocated for unidentified persons.

Migrant deaths have risen to record levels along the Libya-Italy smuggling route across the Mediterranean Sea.