About 500 migrants are feared dead after their ship was rammed by another boat near Malta last week, a migration body said. The International Organisation for Migration says it's believed the boat was deliberately rammed by people traffickers.Two Palestinian survivors told the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that the boat had been intentionally sunk by traffickers, reports BBC. They said boat had left Damietta in Egypt earlier in early September. News of the sinking near Malta emerged as another vessel carrying 250 people sank off the coast of Libya. Over 200 people are feared to have drowned in that incident.Thousands of migrants have drowned in recent years as they attempt to reach Europe from North Africa and the Middle East.Up to 500 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East are feared dead after their boat sank off the Malta coast, in what may be the biggest single loss of life of migrants at sea.
