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Hard to know at this stage is how many people have been involved in this. We have seen figures from the red crescent and the red cross, we have seen figures from the United Nations and from ocha what we know is that many thousands of people were affected by this. And we note that the slow speed of managing to recover many of those victims contributes to some of the difficulties in actually identifying a clear death toll. Because many of those victims were swept out to sea and we have seen, very sadly, those bodies day after day beginning to wash ashore. But also recovery teams working in derna...

SMUGGLERS JAILED Three Irishmen among four people-smugglers jailed after 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in back of lorry in Essex Dan Keane Updated: 22 Jan 2021, 17:25 Dan Keane Invalid Date, THREE Irishmen are among four people-smugglers jailed for a combined 78 years after 39 Vietnamese migrants were smuggled into the UK and suffered an "excruciating" death in the back of a lorry. The victims, Vietnamese men, women and children, had hoped for a better life in Britain when they agreed to pay up to £13,000 a head for a "VIP" smuggling service. The lorry was found with 39 bodies in afte...