article_snippet.sent: As rescuers approached, authorities say migrants on a boat moved to one side, hoping to be saved.
article_snippet.sent: The migrant, who spoke to investigators after being airlifted to a hospital in Catania, is among dozens who authorities say were saved from the sinking vessel.
article_snippet.sent: Maltese authorities, who are working with Italian rescuers, earlier said around 50 of 700 people on a boat had been saved.
article_snippet.sent: Flavio Di Giacomo, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, told CNN that survivors were taken to Sicily.
article_snippet.sent: In one four-day period alone, more than 8,000 migrants were rescued, according to the Italian Coast Guard.