Only four bodies were found, raising fears that the rest of those on board had died.
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The latest arrivals bring the number of people rescued and transferred to Italy since the start of the year to almost 40,000 following the rescue of more than 6,000 since Monday, according to figures collated by the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) and the coastguard.
“That probably is a record”, said coast guard spokesman Cmdr.
Cmdr Nicastro said of the eight operations concluded, some 1,000 migrants have been rescued.
A large wooden fishing boat overcrowded with migrants capsized off the coast of Libya, the Italian Navy saidyesterday, with some 562 people rescued and five found dead.
After the rescue, the navy boat’s commander would recount how he tried, repeatedly to convince the migrants to sit still. None had a life jacket.
The Italian coast guard has coordinated the rescue of around 900 migrants in seven different operations on Thursday. Officials said 88 people had been rescued.
Migrants come to Calais hoping make it to the United Kingdom by boat across the English Channel or in a auto or truck through the tunnel connecting the two countries.
“People are not being informed of where they are going and this is far from acceptable”, Michele Telaro, the group’s project coordinator in Idomeni, said in a statement.
Among those coming ashore on Thursday in Sicily were the survivors of a dramatic capsizing a day earlier off Libya’s coast.
Since Monday, Italian authorities have reported the rescue of more than 10,000 people from the Mediterranean, whereas there were 1,641 arrivals in the whole of last week, according to data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
A Libyan navy spokesman says a total of 766 migrants have been rescued by Libyan coast guards.
Libyan coastguards yesterday detained a further 550 people trying to reach Europe …from “several African countries” and included three children and 30 women, eight of whom were pregnant.
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Meanwhile, another boat trafficking people to Europe has capsized off the Libyan coast, according to the Italian coastguard, the second major deadly incident in two days.
