The lifeless body of a teenager, not older than 14, is among the 24 migrant corpses lying in the morgue after nearly 800 people died off the coast of Libya.

Hospital sources said the average age of the dead migrants brought to Malta was just around 24.

“These men were all quite young, fit and in their prime,” the sources said.

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat yesterday tweeted that the migrants will be laid to rest collectively in an interfaith ceremony being held tomorrow morning.

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