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Libya - 17 April 2017 - Rescue workers are battling to save as many as 1,800 migrants stranded on boats off the coast of Libya. Video: eNCA

Libya - 17 April 2017 - Rescue workers are battling to save as many as 1,800 migrants stranded on boats off the coast of Libya. Photo: eNCA

LIBYA - Rescue workers are battling to save as many as 1,800 migrants stranded on boats off the coast of Libya.

According to CNN, rescue crews from the The Migrant Offshore Aid Station have been working for the last 24 hours and have pulled 453 people to safety so far.

Crews were forced to suspend the operation overnight with their rescue vessel the Phoenix running at full capacity.

The charity's founder, Christopher Catrambone, said yesterday: "Nobody has ever seen anything like what we are witnessing this weekend."

"So far nearly 32,000 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2017. Over 550 have drowned making the crossing.

- Addditional Reporting - Wochit

eNCA

16 April 2017

For more than a week, militias allied to the UN-backed Government of National Accord have fought off rival forces trying to capture an airbase in the south of Libya.

07 April 2017

Navy spokesman General Ayoub Qassem told AFP that the traffickers were on a vessel escorting a migrant boat headed across the Mediterranean to Europe.

02 April 2017

Late Saturday, Benghazi's counter terrorism unit called the photographer, asking him to go to their headquarters 'to answer a few questions'.

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Thousands of migrants stranded off coast of Libya - eNCA