At least 20 migrants die in shipwreck off Italy's Lampedusa island, UN says
Rescuers have recovered 20 bodies so far, and operations were continuing, according to initial reports by Ansa news agency. Between 70 and 80 people were believed to have survived.
Filippo Ungaro, from the UN's refugee agency UNHCR, expressed "deep anguish" over the disaster and said more migrants could still be missing at sea.
"Twenty bodies have been recovered and the same number are missing," he wrote on his account on social media platform X.
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