In the Mediterranean, as many as 150 people are feared dead after a pair of boats overloaded with migrants capsized off the coast of Libya Thursday. This is Abdallah Ahmed Abdallah, a man from Eritrea who survived the disaster.

Abdallah Ahmed Abdallah: “There were 300 of us in the boat, and then water came in. One hundred people were rescued, but the rest all died. The women, children and girls all died. Glory to God, we started swimming for almost seven hours, and then we were rescued by fishermen, almost 100 people. We have been here for two days, and no one has come to take us. There has been a dead body here with us for the past two days. Glory to God, it is like we were fighting death in the sea, and now we are fighting death on the ground.”

It appears to be the deadliest shipwreck in the Mediterranean this year. The International Organization for Migration says nearly 700 people have died attempting the perilous crossing from North Africa to Europe in 2019.