At least four people died when two boats carrying 95 irregular migrants capsized off the Libyan coastal city of Al Khums.

The first boat was carrying 26 migrants from Bangladesh, four of whom died on Thursday, the Red Crescent said in a statement on its Facebook page on Saturday.

The second boat carried 69 migrants, including two Egyptians and dozens of Sudanese, the Red Crescent added without specifying their fate.

Khums is a coastal city, some 118km east of the capital, Tripoli.

On Wednesday, the International Organisation for Migration said that at least 42 migrants went missing and presumed dead after a rubber boat sank near the Al Buri oilfield, an offshore facility north-northwest of the Libyan coast.

Libya has become a transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to

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