TRIPOLI: ‌The bodies of at least 15 migrants have washed ​ashore in Libya in a coastal city east of the capital, Tripoli-based medics said on Monday.

The Emergency Medicine and Support Center, ‌which operates under ‌the ​health ‌ministry, ⁠said ​the bodies washed ⁠up in Khumas city, some 118 km (73 miles) east of Tripoli.

The center said all the bodies have ⁠been buried.

Pictures were ‌posted ‌by the center ​on its ‌Facebook page showing their ‌medics wearing white hazmat suits carrying bodies in black and white plastic bags and ‌other pictures taken during the burials.

Since an uprising ⁠in ⁠2011, Libya has become a North African transit route for hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing conflict and poverty, often in sub-Saharan Africa, with many risking dangerous journeys across ​the ​desert or the Mediterranean.