Sixty-four people were missing in the Mediterranean Sea and several were rescued after their ship wrecked off Italy's southern coast Monday, United Nations' agencies said in a statement. In a separate shipwreck, rescue workers evacuated dozens of suspected migrants but found 10 bodies trapped below the deck of a wooden boat
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264 Bangladeshis rescued from Mediterranean Sea
Tunisian authorities on Thursday rescued 264 Bangladeshis, along with three Egyptian nationals, from the Mediterranean Sea, who attempted to sail from Libya to Europe. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) the migrants were placed in quarantine at a hotel on the Tunisian island of Djerba. Tunisia's coastguard said the migrants