Tripoli , Libya ( CNN ) It took one Somali woman seven months and 4,000 miles to trek to Libya . From there , she hoped to cross the Mediterranean Sea so her baby could be born in Europe . She did n't get there . She was arrested as she was sailing north and is now one of 350 migrants being held in a facility just outside Tripoli . Other pregnant women fleeing repression have come to Libya -- many fleeing fighting that refuses to stop . They , like male migrants , are willing to risk their lives on crowded boats to make the final part of the trip . The Somali woman 's baby , Sabrine , was born a week after she was detained . Libyan officials are in a quandary . The prison head admitted to CNN there is no system in place to send these people home , jail them or let them go . About one-third of the migrants are from Eritrea on the east coast of Africa . They denied they were heading to Europe and told CNN they just want to go home , which is several thousands of miles away . In one sense , they are fortunate , even though the time in prison seems like forever . They are alive . Many others have died when smugglers ' ships sink . Bodies wash up on Libyan beaches . They are anonymous -- no IDs , no links to who they were and what was in their past that drove them to try the dangerous trip . In Malta , there are similar stories of death . On Thursday , the bare , stark caskets came in one by one on the shoulders of Maltese soldiers . The tears soon came along with them . That was the scene in a tent outside the Mater Dei Hospital in Valletta , Malta , a chance for citizens and dignitaries to remember 24 of what 's thought to be hundreds of migrants killed when their crammed ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea . Almost all the other victims have n't been accounted for yet , with the presumption that their bodies remain trapped inside the 66-foot ( 20-meter ) boat that capsized late Saturday roughly 70 miles ( 113 kilometers ) north of Libya . Italian authorities have said that many of the estimated 850 aboard had been locked in the ship 's lower levels with no way out . Why I fled : Migrants share their stories . The tragedy has prompted questions about the growing migrant crisis facing Europe , as well as about who is responsible for Saturday 's tragedy . The Catania , Italy , prosecutor 's office announced Tuesday that the vessel 's 27-year-old captain , Mohammed Ali Malek , and crew member Mahmud Bikhit have been arrested on suspicion of `` reckless shipwreck , multiple manslaughter ( and ) abetting clandestine immigration '' for their roles in the disaster . Those questions still need to be answered . But Thursday , at least , was a day for reflection -- about lives snuffed out simply because people wanted a better life . `` This event reminds us that we are all immigrants and our life is a journey of migration , '' Imam Mohammed El Sadi said at Thursday 's funeral . `` Our grandparents Adam and Eve , peace be onto them , emigrated from heaven to earth . We emigrated from our mothers ' wombs to this world , and we will immigrate to the graves . '' The deaths are the latest illustration of the increasing flow of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East through the Mediterranean and into Europe -- assuming they survive the trip . Gemma Parkin , a spokeswoman for Save the Children , said that the number of migrants who have fled to find refuge in Europe has skyrocketed 70 % this year over last , a dramatic rise that she attributed mostly to the deteriorating security situation in Libya . About 8 % of the recorded migrants between January and April 19 of this year are children , Parkin said . Of those , 70 % are n't unaccompanied by adults -- some of them as young as 9 years old . Such numbers represent only people rescued at sea or caught once they reach land . Frontex , the European Union 's border management agency , says that many illegal immigrants get through without being detected ; moreover , most of them come in legally via airports and then overstay their visas . CNN 's Nick Paton Walsh reported from Tripoli and CNN 's Steve Almasy and Greg Botelho wrote in Atlanta . CNN 's Ingrid Formanek in Catania , Italy , contributed to this report .
Migrant women hope to reach Europe so their babies will be born there . Hundreds of displaced migrants are detained in Libya while officials try to figure out what to do . A funeral is held outside a private , Malta , hospital for migrants killed in ship 's sinking .