Twenty-eight Europe-bound migrants were found dead on a day of frantic rescues off Libya on Tuesday, including at least 22 in an overloaded wooden boat, an AFP photographer and the Italian coastguard said.

The photographer, who was able to go aboard the vessel, said it appeared that many of the dead had suffocated.

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