Missing also include 26 children – after two ships were wrecked off the coast of southern Italy.mayday’ from a French pleasure boat” some 120 nautical miles off the Italian coast, it said.
The French vessel alerted authorities to “the presence of the half-sunken boat”, before taking 12 surviving migrants on board.
They were then transferred to an Italian coastguard boat, which took them to the town of Roccella Ionica in southern Italy.
One of the surviving 12 died after disembarking, the coastguard said.
Around 50 migrants were missing following the shipwreck, according to ANSA news agency, while Radio Radicale put the number at 64, adding that those lost at sea were from Afghanistan and Iran.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it was providing “psychological assistance to all survivors
