A boat carrying migrants sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday. A Coast Guard vessel rescued 49 people from Bangladesh, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Senegal.
Migrants disembarked at the Favarolo wharf after the February 1 rescue.
Some of the migrants said others aboard the boat were still missing. However, statements made by different migrants after the incident were contradictory and it remains unclear how many are unaccounted for.
The boat reportedly departed from El Amra in Tunisia's Sfax governorate at 9 p.m. on January 30.
All those on board paid 2,000 Tunisian dinars for the crossing to Lampedusa.
Red Cross takes action, 350 transferred from hotspot
The Italian Red Cross helped to receive those arriving on the island after the rescue.
Four disembarking operations were carried out on Thursday on Lampedusa, including the one in which 49 were rescued.
The Italian Red Cross immediately contacted the relevant authorities: The prefect's office, the security forces, the port authorities and the associations supporting activities at the hotspot.
Some 350 of the 500 migrants and refugees at the hotspot were transferred on February 2. 180 were transferred via ferry to Porto Empedocle, while 170 migrants were transferred via an International Organisation for Migration (IOM) flight.