The Irish naval vessel the LÉ Niamh is due into the Sicilian port of Messina this morning, carrying the bodies of 14 migrants who died on a wooden barge that left Libya on Monday.
More than 450 other migrants are on board the vessel, after they were rescued by the Irish crew this week.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres estimates around 19-hundred people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean so far this year.
