Record number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean

There has never been a busier 24 hours in the Mediterranean. Over 4,200 migrants who’d set sail from the Libyan coast were plucked from small boats and dinghies. And there’s no sign of it stopping.Sign up for Snowmail, your daily preview of what is on Channel 4 News, sent straight to your inbox, here: http://mailing.channel4.com/public/snowmail/remotebox.jsp

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