Around 400 people reported to have been on a sinking boat off Malta on Wednesday have been saved by private rescue boats.
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A rescue ship carrying nearly 400 migrants picked up another 400 people from a two-tier wooden boat that had started to sink overnight in the central Mediterranean Sea, a German charity that operates the ship said Thursday.