More than 30 migrants, mostly toddlers, drowned when about 200 people without life jackets fell from a boat into the sea off the Libyan coast before they could be hauled into waiting rescue boats.<br/><br/>Rescue group Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), which operates in the Mediterranean, said, its staff was pulling bodies out of the water. A total of 34 dead bodies were found in the water, and around 1,800 people rescued from four rubber dinghies and six wooden boats.<br/><br/>British and Spanish navy ships, aid group Doctors Without Borders, three merchant ships and a tug boat joined MOAS and the Italian Coast Guard and Navy to carry out the rescues.<br/><br/>More than 1,300 people have died this year on the world's most dangerous crossing for migrants, after boarding flimsy boats to flee poverty and war across Africa and the Middle East.