Over 300 Migrants Missing In Mediterranean
The tragedy is the latest in a series involving people trying to make the short but perilous crossing from North Africa to Europe.
More than 300 migrants are feared drowned after their overcrowded dinghies sank in the Mediterranean on the way to Europe.
The victims are among migrants mainly from sub-Saharan Africa who had left Libya at the weekend in four small boats.
Details emerged after nine survivors out of a group of more than 200 packed into two dinghies were rescued by the Italian coastguard and taken to the island of Lampedusa.
Its spokesman in Geneva Joel Mill man told AFP that information was coming in about another stricken boat and warned that the overall toll may reach as many as 350.
The tragedy is the latest in a whole series involving migrants trying to get to Europe from North Africa.
In the last year alone, several thousand people died on what the UN described as the most dangerous route in the world.