article_snippet.sent: Just 28 people are known to have survived the tragedy, described by UNHCR as 'the deadliest incident in the Mediterranean we have ever recorded'.
article_snippet.sent: Last year, Italy scaled back Italy rescue operations because Italy feared its rescue operations were only encouraging migrants to gamble with its rescue operations lives.
article_snippet.sent: But the horrific loss of life over the past week in a spate of migrant shipwrecks has prompted calls to urgently reinstate the rescue missions.
article_snippet.sent: The charity Save the Children has called on EU leaders to restart search and rescue operations off the coast of Italy within 48 hours, on the scale of the previous, and far larger, Italian-led Mare Nostrum operation.
article_snippet.sent: With every day that EU leaders prevaricate and delay restarting search and rescue operations, the risk grows that more people will die as more people try to reach Europe. '
article_snippet.sent: We cannot allow 2015 to be the deadliest year in the Mediterranean yet.
article_snippet.sent: Even one boat that sinks is one too many, but the escalating number of people dying off Italy's shores brings home the urgent need to act.'
article_snippet.sent: Maurice Wren, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the response to events in the Mediterranean was 'inadequate' and Europe had to 'raise the Refugee Council game'.