Forty-one migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, survivors told local media, SIA refers to foreign media.
A group of four people who survived the disaster told rescuers that they were on a boat that had set off from Sfax in Tunisia and sank on its way to Italy.
The four survivors, originally from the Ivory Coast and Guinea, reached Lampedusa on Wednesday.
More than 1,800 people have lost their lives so far this year in the crossing from North Africa to Europe.
Local public prosecutor Salvatore Vella said he had opened an investigation into the tragedy.
The survivors - a 13-year-old boy, two men and a woman, told rescuers that they were on a boat carrying 45 people, including three children.
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