The survivors – three males and a girl from Ivory Coast and Guinea – mentioned they had been rescued by a cargo ship after which transferred onto an Italian coast guard vessel.

Migrants are carried by a MSF rescue staff boat after being rescued within the Mediterranean Sea. Humanitarian group MSF mentioned they’ve carried out Monday a rescue operation for a bunch of 47 migrants on an unstable iron boat throughout the Maltese search and rescue area. Survivors, mentioned that they departed from Sfax, Tunisia and endured six days at sea. (AP)

Forty-one migrants died in a shipwreck final week within the central Mediterranean, the Ansa information company reported on Wednesday, citing accounts from survivors who’ve simply reached the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Ansa mentioned 4 individuals who survived the shipwreck instructed rescuers that they had been on a ship carrying 45 individuals, together with three youngsters.

The boat set off on Thursday morning from Tunisia’s Sfax, a sizzling spot within the migration disaster, however capsized and sank after just a few hours, the survivors had been quoted as saying.

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