Three separate shipwrecks in the Mediterranean in the last week are thought to have claimed the lives of more than 700 people who were trying to reach Europe, according to the UN’s refuge agency. The incidents happened on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after thousands set sail from Libya for Italy in an eight-day period. Carlotta Sami, a spokeswoman for UNHCR, told AP on Sunday that an estimated 100 people were missing from a smugglers’ boat which capsized Wednesday. Aother 550 other migrants and refugees are also missing from a smuggling boat that capsized Thursday morning after leaving the western Libyan port of Sabratha. Sunday counting victims. Macabre exercise:will the world realize the over 700 pp would have deserved a safe passage? pic.twitter.com/c8Puo3ktkF — Carlotta Sami (@CarlottaSami) May 29, 2016 RT reports: One of the deadliest accidents took place on Thursday. At least 550 asylum seekers went missing. The boat, carrying about 670 people, left the Libyan port of Sabratha a day earlier and had no engine. It was towed by another smuggling boat, Sami added. At least 104 people managed to survive: 25 reached another boat and 79 were rescued by international patrol boats. At least 15 bodies [...]