The Italian coast guard on Saturday rescued 103 people from a sailboat off the southeastern coast. The migrants are thought to have sailed near the site of last Wednesday’s deadly shipwreck in Greece.
NGO Doctors Without Borders' search-and-rescue ship Geo Barents disembarked more than three dozen migrants at the northern Italian port of Ancona last week.
The morning after a shipwreck south of Greece's Peloponnese peninsula left at least 78 dead, survivors searched desperately for their loved ones at the nearby port of Kalamata.
Hundreds of Pakistanis are believed to have been on the vessel that sank off the coast of Greece earlier this week, but just 12 have been accounted for.
The number of people arriving in the UK in small boats has reached over 10,000 since the start of the year, UK government figures showed Sunday.