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<\/figure>\n\n\nThe boat that wrecked about 200 kilometers (125 miles) off Calabria had set off from Turkey eight days earlier, but caught fire and overturned, the U.N. agencies said, citing survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The search-and-rescue operation started following a mayday call by a French boat, the Italian coast guard said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The boat was sailing in a border area where Greece and Italy carry out search-and-rescue operations. The survivors and people still missing at sea came from Iran, Syria and Iraq, the U.N. agencies said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Center immediately diverted two merchant vessels sailing nearby to the scene of the rescue. Assets from the European border and coast guard agency Frontex also helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The survivors were brought to the Calabrian port of Roccella Jonica, where they were disembarked and entrusted to the care of medical personnel. One of the 11 rescued migrants died soon after, the coast guard said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the second shipwreck, the crew aboard Resqship\u2019s boat, the Nadir, found 61 people on the wooden boat, which was full of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Our crew was able to evacuate 51 people, two of whom were unconscious,\u201d it added. \u201cThe 10 dead were in the flooded lower deck of the boat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ten people dead and 64 others missing after two shipwrecks off Southern Italy on Monday, according to a German charity and United Nation agencies Several were managed to be rescued by rescue workers. In a separate shipwreck, rescue workers evacuated dozens of suspected migrants but found 10 bodies trapped below the deck of a wooden…<\/p>\n