France, Sept. 18 -- At least 110 people have died or gone missing after two boats carrying mostly Sudanese refugees sunk off the coast of Tobruk, Libya.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Libya said Wednesday evening that only 13 people survived after a vessel carrying 74 people, mostly Sudanese refugees, capsized Sunday off the coast of Tobruk.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM)reported another shipwreck that occurred on Saturday, in which at least 50 people died "after a vessel carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught fire off Libya's coast".

Increasing numbers of migrants have been departing from Tobruk, in northeastern Libya, in an attempt to reach Greece.

The European border agency Frontexcal...