Proactiva Open Arms, which has been rescuing refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Europe, says the Libyan coastguard has left at least two refugees to die after abandoning them at sea.
The Spanish NGO, which carries out search and rescue operations in Mediterranean, posted a video and pictures on Twitter showing how their boat took aboard three people; two women and a child.
By the time the three were found by Proactiva, one woman and the child had already died.
According to tweets by Oscar Camps, founder and director of Proactiva, the boat was damaged and abandoned by the Libyan coastguard.
"Today we’ve found the bodies of a woman and a small child, as well as a woman who was still alive among the wreck of a ship," Camps said in a video.
"I want to condemn the lack of assistance in international waters and the merchant ship Triades which abandoned a boat in danger in the middle of the night," he added.
"They don’t know how to manage an emergency situation they arrived two days late and abandoned two women and a child in the wreckage of a ship that they themselves destroyed," Camps said.
The boat carrying the two bodies and one survivor were found about 120km off the Libyan coast.
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