At least 200 people are dead after a inflatable dingies, each carrying hundreds of migrants, overturned in rough seas off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The scale of this latest tragedy is unprecedented: at least 94 people have died and hundreds are missing after an overcrowded boat carrying some 500 people caught fire and sank off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy, early Thursday morning. Some 140 people have been rescued and the search continues for more survivors even as hope fades.
Divers have been searching the wreck of the boat that was carrying around 500 African migrants to Europe but sank off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday.
At least 130 migrants from Africa have been found dead, with many more missing after the boat carrying them to Europe caught fire and then capsized off the coast of Lampedusa.