article_snippet.sent: A rescue operation is still underway for people who were on the ship from Libya, and the number of potential victims is not clear.
article_snippet.sent: Maltese authorities, who are working with Italian rescuers, said around 50 people had been saved.
article_snippet.sent: But the Italian Coast Guard said 28 people had been rescued and 24 bodies recovered.
article_snippet.sent: We are not yet working on numbers, but what We have agreed on today is, for sure, the need to increase significantly the resources at sea, and the level of A rescue operation, doing more search and rescue and doing it more together," Federica Mogherini told CNN's "The World
article_snippet.sent: Our troops, together with the Italian navy, are literally looking through the bodies to try to find someone who's still alive," Muscat said.
article_snippet.sent: De Filippi called on European states to immediately launch large-scale search and rescue operations with proactive patrolling as close as possible to Libyan shores. "
article_snippet.sent: An Italian search and rescue program, Mare Nostrum, was credited with rescuing more than 160,000 migrants in the space of a year.
article_snippet.sent: But An Italian search and rescue program, Mare Nostrum ended in October because of budget constraints and criticism from the European Union that the program itself was encouraging migrants to head across the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: Doctors Without Borders will begin Doctors Without Borders own rescue effort, De Filippi said, because "as a medical, humanitarian organization, we simply cannot wait any longer.