An aid group has blamed both Libya's coast guard and Italy's interior minister for the deaths of a woman and child in a stricken raft. Libya and Italy reject the accusations.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said the EU should send migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea back to Libya. The demand comes after 450 rescued migrants arrived in Pozzallo to be distributed to other EU countries.
Eight migrants, mostly children, suffocated to death trapped in a refrigerator truck in western Libya on Monday. The vehicle was carrying around 100 migrants from Asian, African and Arab countries.
The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) says it has resumed voluntary repatriations of migrants from Yemen. Repatriations were halted last month due to military operations in the city of Hodeida.
The Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms has sent two ships to rescue migrants in distress off the Libyan coastline despite the fact that Italian ports are closed and the EU has called for "non-interference".