At least 26 people died in a migrant shipwreck off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday (Aug 13) and 60 were brought ashore, the coastguard said, adding that the death toll was still provisional amid ongoing search operations.

ROME (AP) — A boat carrying nearly 100 migrants capsized Wednesday in international waters off the Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 26 people and leaving about a dozen missing, the Italian coast guard and U.N. agencies said.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday that several migrants died in a boat accident off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. Filippo Ungaro, a spokesman for the agency,