A rescue ship run by RESQSHIP, a German aid group, managed to pick up 51 people from a sinking wooden vessel as two boats ran into trouble as they tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea
At least 11 people are feared dead and dozens more missing after two ships were wrecked off the coast of southern Italy.
The victims are thought to be migrants. A rescue ship run by RESQSHIP, a German aid group, managed to pick up 51 people from a sinking wooden vessel.
Two of the 51 were unconscious and 10 bodies were found trapped in the wooden ships lower deck near the island of Lampedusa, an Italian island off the coast of Tunisia.
The wooden boat got into difficulty off Lampedusa and floated towards the Libyan coast
The second shipwreck took place about 125 miles east of the Italian region of Calabria. That a boat that had set off from Turkey eight days earlier before catching fire and overturning, according to UN agencies. A woman is understood to have died after falling into the water.
At least 12 migrants were rescued, the Italian coastguard said. More than 50 people are still missing.
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