Nearly 500 migrants who tried to cross the central Mediterranean have been brought back to Libya, a spokesman for the U.N. migration agency said on Friday, two days after charity groups lost contact with the boat carrying them.
"Libya is an unsafe port where migrants should never be brought back," Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesman for the U.N.'s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) wrote on Twitter.
He told Reuters there were 485 migrants and they docked in the Libyan port of Benghazi on Friday. No further details were provided to IOM at this stage.
