article_snippet.sent: But over 900 making the perilous journey have either died or gone missing since the start of the year and 400 migrants died in two shipwrecks last week.
article_snippet.sent: The 21-year-old was identified by the wound on his big toe which his received when a migrant his threw overboard bit
article_snippet.sent: Many of the migrants on board suffered horrific burns from a gas explosion before departing from Libya, but were forced on the smugglers' boat without treatment.
article_snippet.sent: The UN Refugee Agency said a gas explosion occurred at a holding centre run by smugglers who demand thousands of pounds for a place on the dangerous boats.
article_snippet.sent: Several people died in the tragic accident and many more were injured, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' spokesperson.
article_snippet.sent: Another UN spokesperson Carlotta Sami claimed to 'have never before seen cruelty like this' as the migrants' burns were exposed to blistering heat and salt water for two days at sea.
highlights_snippet.sent: Among Surviving refugees on dinghy was boat of Libyans who were suffering from severe burns .