Ten migrants perished over the weekend and dozens are missing, including children, after their boat sank off the Libyan coast.
According to aid groups an inflatable boat loaded with 140 to 150 men, women and children left Garabulli, 50 kilometres east of Tripoli, on Friday night, but after eight or nine hours it began to deflate and take on water.
The Libyan navy and Italian coastguard rescued 86 people and recovered the bodies of ten people and said dozens were missing.
The aid groups officials said the migrants came from The Gambia,Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon and Nigeria.
