Tragic: 41 migrants dead shipwreck; survivors identified on Lampedusa.
According to reports, the shipwreck four survivors told rescuers they were on a boat with 45 people on it, including three children.
The boat left Sfax, Tunisia on Thursday morning, a flashpoint in the migration crisis, but collapsed and drowned after a few hours, according to the survivors.
The survivors, three men and a woman from Ivory Coast and Guinea, said that an Italian coast guard ship relocated them from a cargo ship where they had been rescued to.
Uncertainty existed as to whether the information provided by reporters was connected to the two shipwrecks that the coast guard had reported on Sunday, when it stated that about 30 persons were missing from them.
57 survivors and two bodies have also been found, according to the coast guard, that at least one of the sinking boats had left Sfax on Thursday.
