Migrant survivor says Mediterranean shipwreck was 'like a war scene'

The European Union is under international pressure to establish a new search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean on the heels of the worst migrant disaster in the area in which more than 800 people died after their boat sank off the coast of Libya.

A new report from Amnesty International calls the EU's obligations to provide aid a "stark life and death" matter and unpacks the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis with first-person accounts.

The report, released on Wednesday ahead of an emergency EU Council summit on the crisis, relied on survivors’ testimonies and an analysis of the gap in search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean. Read more...