A UN body indicated that additional people might be missing as search efforts continue after at least 20 people perished in a migrant shipwreck off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday.
According to the Italian Red Cross and the UN refugee agency UNHCR, 60 survivors—56 men and four women—have been taken to Lampedusa, while rescuers have discovered 20 bodies thus far.
The catastrophe, which in this instance involved individuals traveling from Libya, was the most recent to strike migrants attempting the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe.
According to Filippo Ungaro, a UNHCR spokesperson in Italy, 675 individuals have lost their lives while attempting to cross the central Mediterranean since the start of this year.
