ROME (AP) – Sixty-four people were missing in the Mediterranean Sea and several were rescued after their ship wrecked off Italy’s southern coast on Monday, United Nations’ (UN) agencies said in a statement.
In a separate shipwreck, rescue workers evacuated dozens of suspected migrants but found 10 bodies trapped below the deck of a wooden boat off Italy’s tiny Lampedusa Island, the German aid group Resqship wrote on Monday on the X social media platform.
The boat that wrecked about 200 kilometres off Calabria had set off from Turkiye eight days earlier, but caught fire and overturned, the UN agencies said, citing survivors.
