Harrowing pictures show migrants stepping over bodies in desperate fight for survival

 Shocking images captured onboard a migrant boat shows dead bodies laying around as desperate migrants struggle to flee to safety. A boat carrying around 1,800 people was sighted in the Mediterranean 12 miles off the coast of Libya.

Some resorted to jumping overboard while one drowning father tried to fling his baby to safety. Staff from Proactiva Open Arms NGO pulled the living onboard their own boats but for some, it was too late.They were among the 4,650 migrant saved in more than 30 rescue missions off the Libyan coast yesterday.This brings the total rescued in the last 48 hours to more than 10,000 refugees, and the death toll to 50 as people smugglers take advantage of relatively calm weather to push boats to
sea.The coast guard said the migrants on Tuesday were rescued from 33 boats, including 27 rubber dinghies.

Two women stand on a boat as they wait with other refugees and migrants to be rescued

Members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO evacuate a dead body on a stretcher

Migrants wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO

Migrants gesture towards members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO

Members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO prepare to evacuate a dead body on a stretcher

A migrant waits to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO

Members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO evacuate a dead body on a stretcher

A child cries as migrants are being rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO

Dead bodies lie on the bottom level of a third-level wooden vessel

Migrants wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea

Migrants wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO

Migrants try to pull a child out of the water as they wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO

Migrants step over dead bodies while being rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO