Countries where these desperate people are coming from and where they embark on their perilous journey are hitting at the people smugglers carrying them.

Libya’s internationally recognised government’s warned countries not to send ships into its territorial waters without authorisation.

It attacked a Turkish ship guilty of this and killed one seaman.

Many of the traffickers’ ship crossing to the Italian island Lampedusa set out from Libya.

Niger’s lawmakers have adopted a law calling for sentences of up to 30 years for smugglers of migrants.

The European Union is seeking a UN mandate allowing it to destroy the often flimsy boats used to carry these migrants.

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