61 refugees drown trying to escape Gaddafi, bodies wash ashore [GRAPHIC CONTENT]

[Meatpie]

At least 800 people have drowned as they tried to escape war torn Libya in the two months since the civil war started, UN officials said on Tuesday.



The dramatic claim was made just days after it emerged that 61 people drowned after another ship sank despite being spotted and given assistance by an unidentified military helicopter.

There have been claims it was from a Nato vessel patrolling the waters off the coast of Libya but officials have denied this saying there is "no evidence that one of their vessels was involved."

The victims are made up mainly of refugees fleeing Libya but economic migrants are also feared to have died as they sailed from north Africa to the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa.

Since January the island has been swamped with more than 20,000 illegal immigrants and refugees pushing it's limited resources of food and water to the limit.


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[phyzzique]

61 refugees drown trying to escape Gaddafi, bodies wash ashore

Fucking awesome m8......I had always heard that drowning victims were bloated when they washed ashore. In movies and TV they still look so pretty

 

[Meatpie]

That's only in movies m8, real world is much more brutal. Go tot he NYC morgue and see for yourself, rotting human bodies can really make you want to puke.

I find it very hard to come to terms with the fact that we will all be smelly bloated rotters one day.