At Least 11 Dead, 64 Missing After 2 Ships Sink Off Coast of Southern Italy

Some of the 11 migrants saved from the sea after their sailboat sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and Greece early on June 17, 2024, are assisted in Roccella Ionica, southern Italy where they were brought by the Italian Coast Guard. Valeria Ferraro/AP Photo

ROME—Sixty-four people were missing in the Mediterranean Sea and several were rescued after their ship wrecked off Italy’s southern coast Monday, United Nations’ agencies said in a statement.

In a separate shipwreck, rescue workers evacuated dozens of suspected migrants but found 10 bodies trapped below the deck of a wooden boat off Italy’s tiny Lampedusa island, the German aid group Resqship wrote on Monday on the X social media platform.