The dead bodies of desperate migrants who were bundled onto overcrowded boats destined for Europe, but capsize killing those on board, are washing up on Libya's beaches.
Their bones, half submerged in the sand, will be buried in unmarked graves, their relatives unaware their loved ones have perished.
Volunteers from Libyan Red Crescent Society collect the bodies which were swallowed and spat out by the Mediterranean Sea as they risked their lives on the perilous journey from Libya bound for the island of Lampedusa off the Italian coast.
Meanwhile, more than 1,000 men, women and children who were able to survive treacherous journeys to Europe continued to be rescued off the coasts of Italy and Greece each day.
Shocking new photographs taken in Zuwara, on the west coast of Libya close to the Tunisian border, show the true extent of the migrant crisis.
Bodies, some of which are barely more than a pile of bones, are being picked up on a 100-mile stretch of the war-torn country from Garaboli to Zuwara.
One heartbreaking picture is of a skeleton, which has been washed up on the beach with the still wearing the pair of yellow trousers and black leather belt they set off in.
Taha Sultan, head of health at Libyan Red Crescent Society, an organisation working on the ground to help the country's vulnerable population, said hundreds of bodies had been washing up over the past year.
Speaking to MailOnline from Benghazi in the east of the country, he said: 'We have been dealing with this for more than a year along the west coast.
'It happens every day. These kind of things happen all the time in Libya.'
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