The Tunisian captain of a boat overcrowded with migrants that capsized off Libya on Sunday, has been charged with reckless homicide after hundreds of migrants died in the water.
The latest refugee deaths in the Mediterranean, where up to 700 people drowned while travelling from North Africa to Europe, follows a similar tragedy last week in which 400 people perished.
The Islamic State (IS) have released a new propaganda video apparently showing the brutal killing of dozens of Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
Foreign and interior ministers from EU members states are to hold urgent talks in Luxembourg to discuss the rapidly rising death toll of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean from northern Africa.
Hundred of migrants attempting to reach Europe from Libya are feared to have drowned after their boat capsized.