The UN refugee agency says more than 700 migrants may have drowned in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy in the last few days.
The news comes as Italian authorities say 13,000 people have been rescued from the waterway in the last week.
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668 were saved yesteday alone – 347 of them by the Irish naval vessel the LÉ Róisín.
However it's feared that we don't know the extent of the death toll in the Mediterranean as some boats sink undetected.
Earlier 19 people who are believed to have been attempting to reach Britain – were rescued from the English Channel after an inflatable boat they were in started taking on water.
