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Two dead and 57 rescued after migrant boats sink off Lampedusa in Italy

Italian coastguard says it can confirm recovery of two bodies amid reports of more than 30 people missing

Italy’s coastguard said on Sunday it had recovered two bodies and rescued 57 people off the southern island of Lampedusa, amid reports that more than 30 people were missing after two shipwrecks.

The Ansa news agency, citing survivors’ accounts, reported that two migrant boats that had set off from the port of Sfax, a hotspot for Tunisia’s migration crisis, had sunk on Saturday on their way to Europe.

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