At least 92 people
have died after a boat carrying African migrants sank off the southern
Italian Island of Lampedusa, the Island's mayor has said.
The boat was believed to have been carrying about 500 people at the time.
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Officials say that more than 140 have been rescued but hundreds are missing.
Passengers
reportedly threw themselves into the sea as the vessel got into trouble
and Italian officials were quoted as saying that dozens of people were
still in the water.
"At one point there
was a fire on the boat and so the migrants moved, all of them, to one
side of the boat which capsized," Simona Moscarelli, a spokeswoman from
the International Migration Organisation in Rome, told the BBC.
It
is one of the worst such disasters to occur off the Italian coast in
recent years. Prime Minister Enrico Letta had tweeted that it was "an
immense tragedy".The boat was believed to have been carrying about 500 people at the time.
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