Rescue ship recovers 13 bodies from dinghy off Libya’s coast

“Several pregnant women and mothers among the (dead),” Proactiva’s founder Oscar Camps wrote on Twitter.
A spokesman for Italy’s coastguard said some 260 migrants had been rescued from different boats on Tuesday. Some 600 people were rescued from the southern Mediterranean yesterday, Reuters reported.
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