In Rome, Italy on Friday was confirmed, the death of 12 migrants on Thursday when their overcrowded rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya.
It said no fewer than 500 others were rescued in the latest episodes in the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
Italian coast guards said the corpses of the victims were found in the sea by the Coast Guard ship, Dattilo, some 40 miles north of Libya.
The organisation said Dattilo saved 106 people from the same dinghy, which was half submerged when help arrived.
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