As many as 500 people feared dead when a large ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy. A merchant ship rescued 41 people including 37 men, three women and a three-year-old child. The rescuers took the survivors to Kalamata.
According to survivors, last week a group of between 100 and 200 people departed on a 30-metre-long boat from a place near Tobruk in Libya.
It is heard that the incident took place when the smugglers on charge of the boat attempted to transfer the passengers to a larger ship carrying hundreds of people in overcrowded conditions. During the shifting, the larger boat overturned and went down. The survivors include people who managed to swim back to smaller boat and who had not boarded the larger ship.
