article_snippet.sent: This week, Italian coastguards intercepted more than 42 boats attempting to make the crossing to Europe .
article_snippet.sent: This followed reports earlier today of a shipwreck feared to have cost 41 lives off the Italian coast.
article_snippet.sent: Four men, two Nigerians, a Ghanaian and one from Niger, who had been rescued while floating in the Mediterranean by an Italian Navy helicopter reported a shipwreck feared to have cost 41 lives off the Italian coast once Four men, two Nigerians, a Ghanaian and one from Niger, who had been rescued while floating in the Mediterranean by an Italian Navy helicopter arrived in the Italian port of Trapani today.
article_snippet.sent: The new tragedies come just days after aid agencies reported 400 presumed dead in the sinking of another ship near the Italian coast.
article_snippet.sent: The new tragedies have raised calls for a more robust search and rescue of the seas between Libya and Europe amid a surge in migration between the Middle East and Africa toward Italy.