More than 100 migrants perished earlier this month when two rubber boats sank off the coast of Libya, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirmed.

The rubber boats left the Libyan coast on the first of September with dozens of immigrants aboard, mostly believed to be of African nationals. The engine of one of the boats failed while the other boat deflated and sank.

The Libyan Coast Guard transferred the survivors to the port of Khums in Libya on the second of September, (MSF) clarified, renewing its call to end the arbitrary detention of thousands of refugees and migrants throughout Libya.

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