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A Libyan migrant has been filmed being picked up by a private tug boat after jumping from a vessel that suffered technical failure.

The man was one of a number of migrants on a boat in the Mediterranean taking them away from Libya.

He jumped when it was approached by the Libyan coast guard, and headed for the tug, called the Vos Triton, which was a few hundred metres away.

Sea Watch, a non-profit rescue organisation, said its search and rescue aircraft, Moonbird, contacted the tug boat and advised the crew to stop the engine, asking them to "take all necessary steps to rescue the person".

Libya became a focal point for African migrants and refugees fleeing to Europe following an uprising in 2011 in which Muammar Gaddafi was ousted.

Elsewhere, as migration begins to rise during the spring and summer months, Morocco said it had stopped boats carrying 117 sub-Saharan migrants from crossing to Europe.

It also arrested 40 people trying to scale a fence into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla.

Another group of 52 migrants did manage to cross into Melilla, though, in what the Moroccan authorities called the biggest border-crossing attempt since October.

Seven security officers and two migrants were injured and taken to hospital on the Moroccan side, an official said.

Migrant arrivals in Spain last year eclipsed those in Italy and Greece, with 60,000 arriving, almost all of them by sea.

Overall, however, the flow of migrants to Europe has fallen sharply since 2015, when as many as a million entered the continent.