Royal Navy makes its biggest rescue yet of migrants from Mediterranean death boats as they pluck 1,000 to safety off the shore of Libya

Heaving: More than 700 migrants are onboard the HMS Bulwark with the figure expected to top 1000 by the end of today

The Royal Navy expects to have saved more than 1,000 migrants by the end of today - in their biggest rescue operation in the Mediterranean so far. 

Pregnant women - including one in labour - and young children and among the 700 desperate people already picked up by HMS Bulwark around 27 miles from the coast of Libya in the busiest day of operations in the Mediterranean.

Efforts are continuing near the war-torn country with those already on board having traveled for around 10 hours in four overcrowded rubber and wooden boats. 

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