The Italian Coast Guard said it found, on Wednesday, the bodies of 50 people were on board a boat carrying migrants off the Libyan coast.
The spokesman for the Italian troops informed Reuters News Agency that 430 people on board the boat were rescued.
According to the BBC’s Arabic site, spokeswoman of the Italian coast guard forces said that the rescue operation, which was carried out by the Swedish ship, is one within 10 operations carried out in the water off Libya.
The Italian Navy did not disclose the nationalities or ages of the victims.