Italy: perhaps 700 died in the sinking of a clandestine boat

The sinking of a trawler responsible for illegal could have made 700 deaths, according to the High Commission to the United Nations for Refugees.

Capsizing last night at the boundary of Libyan territorial waters, about 220 kilometers south of the Italian island of Lampedusa on board more than 700 people.

The alert was issued around midnight, according to the Times of Malta.

Only 28 people survived and were rescued.

The trawler capsized when migrants have reportedly massed on the same side at the approach of a merchant ship survivors as testimonials.

For now, a score of bodies were recovered.

If this tragedy were to be confirmed, it would be a thousand illegal immigrants who have died since the beginning of the year trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe.