The rescue services were only able to save 29 people. Most of them were migrants for New Erytrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.

Should the information be confirmed, this will become yet another deadly incident in a long list of deaths in the sea by migrants who attempted to reach Italy.

The Italian President, Sergio Mattarella spoke of a tragedy with thousands of dean migrants in the Mediterranean sea.

The Italian Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni spoke to reporters: “It is certain that we are facing another tragedy in the Mediterranean, exactly one year after the tragedy that we had outside Libya”.