Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: This is the moment a group of terrified African migrants were photographed clinging on for dear life after the barely seaworthy boat they were using to make the extremely dangerous passage across the Mediterranean Sea began to sink. More than 450 migrants desperate for a new life in Europe were crammed on board the former fishing vessel when it went down just 20 miles off the northern coast of Libya. Only the lucky few seen in the photographs - which were taken from a passing aircraft - were able to survive the disaster, clinging to the tiny tip of the hull that remained above the water after hundreds of their friends and family members sunk to their tragic deaths.More than 450 migrants desperate for a new life in Europe were crammed on board the former fishing vesselThe boat bound for the Italian mainland went down just 20 miles off the northern coast of LibyaOnly a lucky few seen in the photographs were able to survive the disaster - with hundreds of others dyingPassengers on board a passing plane were able to alert the Italian Coast Guard who sent a rubber dinghyBut that craft was overwhelmed by the desperate migrants and also started to sink in the merciless sea 
 Question:The images emerged as the former people trafficker claimed some of the shipwrecks are set up deliberately by smuggling gangs to encourage rescuers to come closer to _.

Libya