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The two migrants found clinging to the barrel were spotted after an Italian navy helicopter spotted a rubber boat deflating and dropped life rafts to help migrants on board.

Italy’s navy says it has rescued 52 migrants from a sinking rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean, but about 50 others are missing. Safer places on board cost more; life vests were sold separately as extras, police said.

According to reports from the Italian authorities, some of the survivors has confirmed the news that many are still missing as far as 50 more people who onboard is still missing.

Croatian navy vessel SB72 Andrija Mohorovicic – which is part of the EU’s Triton patrol and rescue operation in the Mediterranean – rushed to the boat’s aid, coastguards said.

Another call came for rescue at 5pm Irish time – 375 more people needed to be taken from Italian vessel the Mimbelli. Italy has arrested five North African men in connection with the incident, on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking.

GENEVA-(ENEWSPF)-6 August 2015 – nearly 400 people have been rescued so far from a vessel which sank off the coast of Libya while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea with an estimated 600 refugees and migrants on board, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

Flower-topped coffins containing the bodies of the recovered dead were loaded into black funeral vans.

She was being treated in a hospital accompanied by three family members. One was a man with a fractured leg; the other was a mother, with 1-year-old son, who needed dialysis.

Survivors of the capsizing and sinking of a fishing boat crowded with migrants are brought aboard Irish and Italian Navy life-boats to the Dignity I MSF search and rescue vessel which responded to the emergency in the Mediterranean sea off Libya, Wednesday, August 5, 2015.

All those who took part in the rescue will receive counselling over the coming days, he said, to ensure they are coping with what they experienced, from men clinging desperately to life-rafts to women pleading with their last breath to be saved.

Hopes pale of discovering extra survivors on Thursday from a shipwreck through which 200 migrants are feared drowned, as rescue ships have been referred to as to assistance from extra migrant boats in the identical space of the Mediterranean.

More than 200 migrants are feared to have drowned in the latest Mediterranean boat tragedy after rescuers saved over 370 people from a capsized boat thought to be carrying 600, the Italian coast guard indicated on Thursday. Arab migrants, on the other hand, were mostly beaten...

It is feared up to 200 migrants may have drowned after an overcrowded boat they were on capsized in the Mediterranean.

ROME (AP) – Survivors of a migrant boat that capsized off Libya as rescuers approached told investigators that smugglers armed with knives forced people to stay in the trawler’s hold, increasing fears that more than 200 had been trapped inside and drowned, officials...

The coastguard picked up 381 on Thursday morning, whereas an Italy navy ship took 101 from a big rubber boat, and the MSF vessel Argos rescued 87, in accordance with their Twitter accounts.