Libyan authorities combatting illegal migration said the boat embarked from Egypt and overturned off Libya. Officials did not say what caused the shipwreck.
The Turkish coast guard has said it recovered a total of six migrant bodies in the Aegean Sea. Rescue operations are ongoing for one missing person off the coast of Izmir.
Humanitarian ships in the Mediterranean Sea have rescued nearly 300 migrants in the last few days. On Monday three vessels were waiting for permission to bring the migrants – some of them injured – to safety.
The rescue ship Geo Barents has landed in Taranto, southern Italy, to disembark 267 people rescued over the last week. Meanwhile, the Humanity 1 currently has 111 persons on board, following its first rescure operation.
The fate of around 60 Lebanese and Syrian migrants on a sinking fishing boat in the Mediterranean is unknown after contact was lost on Monday. They had reported running out of food and water, and that two young children on board had died.