Italy's coastguard has found twelve people dead, including women and children, after a boat carrying migrants sank earlier in the week off the country's southern coast.
The number of confirmed fatalities from the accident is now 20 people.
Ten people survived, but around 75 people, from Iran, Syria and Iraq, are reported to have been on the boat that left Turkey about nine days ago.
At least 26 children, some of them just a few months old, are feared to have died, according to the organisation Doctors Without Borders.
On Monday, ten dead bodies from another shipwrecked migrant boat were found off the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to rescue groups.
So far this year, over 1,000 people have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean, according to the UN's migration agency IOM.
