A Spanish rescue ship sped to the vessel after it was spotted from the air. Three boats with as many as 300 migrants went missing after leaving Senegal for the Canary Islands two weeks ago.
Dozens of migrants are thought to have died after their inflatable rubber boat sunk off the coast of Libya, marking the latest tragedy on the world's deadliest migration route. Authorities have retrieved 11 bodies so far.
A new report suggests that migrants and refugees are being pushed back within the European Union from Italy to Greece under what many have described as "inhumane" circumstances. Even though the practice is highly illegal, hundreds of potential asylum seekers seem to have been affected by it in recent years.
The MSF rescue ship in the Mediterranean was racing to help a migrant boat in distress on Monday, but feared doing so might break the far-right Italian government's new law on life-saving missions.
Tunisian authorities have recovered the bodies of four people believed to be African migrants, including a pregnant woman, off the coast of Kerkennah Island in the Central Mediterranean.