The boat capsized off the Libyan coast overnight, 120 miles south of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the Times of Malta reported.
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By Staff report | April 19, 2015
Seven hundred people are feared dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants trying to reach Europe capsized off Malta, the UNHCR said Sunday.
Spokeswoman Carlotta Sami told the Skytg24 news channel that only 28 people had survived the shipwreck.
"At the moment, this is still a search and rescue operation, but in time it will be a search [for bodies] only," the Italian coastguard's spokesman said, according to the BBC.
The survivors indicated there had been more than 700 on board, she said.
Italian ships, the Maltese Navy and commercial vessels are all involved in the rescue operation in Libyan waters, the BBC has reported.
The boat capsized off the Libyan coast overnight, 120 miles south of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the Times of Malta reported.
The emergency was declared at about midnight. The boat is believed to have capsized when migrants moved to one side of the vessel when a merchant ship approached.
-- Malta: 700 migrants feared dead in Libyan waters
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