Rabat - After a boat carrying an estimated 700 people sank off the Libyan coast over the weekend, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday it had received a distress call from a sinking boat in the Mediterranean carrying 300 migrants.
The IOM said its Rome office has received a call from a boat with 300 migrants sinking in the Mediterranean. The caller reported 20 fatalities as the boat- -one of two floating near each other- sank in international waters.
Joe Millman, a spokesman for the IOM Rome office, said: "the caller said that there are over 300 people on his boat and it is already sinking."
Colleague Federico Soda said the organization had contacted the coast guard, but said "they do not have the assets to conduct these rescues right now."
"The weekend incident has tied up a lot of resources. The coast guard will probably try to redirect commercial ships to the area," Soda said in an email.
In a separate incident also on Monday, a wooden sailboat with dozens of migrants seeking to enter Europe ran aground off the coast of the Greek Island of Rhodes.
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