Passengers who resisted the smugglers were stabbed or beaten with wooden and steel clubs, then thrown overboard where some were attacked by sharks, the agency said it learned from survivors.

“Several recovered bodies showed signs of severe mutilation,” UNHCR said.

—“Smugglers toss hundreds of refugees to sharks,” CNN/AP

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