Over 1,000 migrants were pulled to safety from rickety vessels in the Mediterranean Thursday by rescuers who also recovered 17 bodies, Italy's coastguard said. Around 1,128 people were plucked from five rubber dinghies and three boats in the Strait of Sicily, the coastguard said, without specifying whether the bodies were discovered on one or more of the vessels.
The migrants were picked up by the Grecale Italian navy ship, Britain's HMS Enterprise - operating under the EU's naval mission to tackle people smuggling, the Irish navy's James Joyce patrol boat and a vessel chartered by German NGO Sea-Watch.
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