Some 150 migrants are feared to have died when their boat sank about 100km off the Libyan coast, the Libyan coastguard has reported.

The boat is believed to have sailed from Garabulli on Sunday.

The coastguard was alerted when a number of corpses were washed ashore.

A patrol boat subsequently found scores of bodies in the water, but no survivors.

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