Horrifying photographs showing pregnant women and children among dead migrants found in a rubber dinghy has shone a light on the grim reality of the desperate scramble to cross the Mediterranean into Europe. A Spanish charity found 167 migrants alive and 13 dead in yet another rescue operation involving rubber boats crossing the deadly stretch of sea.

More than 2,200 migrants have died trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean so far this year according to the International Organization for Migration – meaning on average 10 people a day die making the journey.

As some migrants’ corpses lie n@ked in the middle of the dinghy, others can be seen in the pictures sitting around in life-jackets waiting to be rescued.

Operation Sophia, which has naval ships and aircraft monitoring the Mediterranean, aims to disrupt smuggling networks and train Libya’s coastguard as a way of stemming the flow of desperate migrants attempting the risky crossing from Libya to Italy in unseaworthy boats.

Mhen!!! The hustle is real
#Godhavemercy

1. The whites had to cover their noses to escape the stench
2. Anyone who survives this ordeal is capable of murder
3. Where are their belongings?


And finally, was Buhari amongst them?