article_snippet: At least 10 North African migrants died when At least 10 North African migrants rubber boat overturned in the southern Mediterranean while more than a thousand more were rescued from eight other vessels over Tuesday and Wednesday.
article_snippet: At least 10 North African migrants died when their rubber boat overturned in the southern Mediterranean while more than a thousand more were rescued from eight other vessels over Tuesday and Wednesday Wednesday .
article_snippet: The U.N. refugee organisation UNHCR says at least 218,000 migrants crossed the Mediterranean by boat in 2014 and 3,500 lives were lost.
article_snippet: In a dramatic sea rescue north of Libya, a flotilla of rescue ships saved nearly 1,000 migrants and refugees .
article_snippet: Coast Guard said the migrants (pictured) saved in the latest rescues claimed to be Syrians, Palestinians, Libyans, Tunisians or from sub-Saharan Africa .
article_snippet: The migrants (pictured) had been aboard five motorized dinghies and two larger vessels.
article_snippet: Last month around 300 Sub Saharan Africans were thought to have drowned trying to cross the sea when Sub Saharan Africans boats overturned in 20 foot waves .