Survivor Tells of Mediterranean Sea Disaster That May Have Killed 500 Migrants

Muaz Mahmud and another survivor of last week’s shipwreck in Libya recounted grim details of the sinking, in which 500 passengers may have died. They described how smugglers had promised to help them flee poverty and conflict in Africa for the safety of Europe, only to install them in floating death traps and abandon them when the journey became too dangerous