One of the survivors said they had spent four days stranded at sea after the boat they were on suffered engine failure.
Some people in distress on a fibreglass boat had to be plucked from the water.
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people attempt to reach Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...from North Africa by crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
The UN's International Organization for Migration's Missing Migrants Project found that 3,041 people were dead or went missing in the Mediterranean last year.