Up to 40 African migrants are feared drowned off the coast of Libya.<br /><br /> Survivors who came ashore in Sicily after being rescued by a German navy ship told aid agencies that their boat had started to fall apart shortly after putting to sea near Tripoli.<br /><br /> The ship brought nearly 300 migrants, most of them men, to Port Augusta on Sicily’s eastern coast.<br /><br /> The UN aid agency said the dead came from sub-Saharan countries such as Benin, Mali and Senegal.<br /><br /> The Italian coastguard says 2,000 migrants have been rescued in a 24-hour period.<br /><br /> Eight rescue operations were carried out by ships from Italy, Germany, Malta and Sweden.<br /><br /> The International Organisation for Migration says 150,000 migrants have come to Europe by sea this year from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.<br /><br /> Many don’t get that far – and end up in Libyan detention centres, where evidence of rough conditions has been uncovered by Britain’s Sky News. <br /><br /> Its investigation into people smuggling heard that traffickers manage to e
