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Eleven migrants have died and dozens of others are feared missing after two shipwrecks off the southern coasts of Italy, according to a German charity and the Italian coast guard.
Rescuers coming to the aid of migrants on a wooden boat off Lampedusa found 10 bodies below deck, the German aid group ResQship said on X.
Separately, the Italian coast guard said it was looking for an unspecified number of missing migrants following the shipwreck of a sailing boat about 220 kilometers east of the southern region of Calabria.
It said the partially sunken boat, presumed to have set off from a Turkish port, was first spotted by a French boat in international waters where Italian and Greek search and rescue zones overlap.
The French boat took on board 12 survivors, who were transferred to a cargo ship and then onto an Italian coast guard patrol. One died just after the group was taken ashore to Calabria.
Italian public broadcaster RAI reported "at least 50" migrants were thought to be missing, while some local media reports said at least 64 people were unaccounted for.
(With input from agencies)