Alarm over dozens of missing migrants in Med

Europe's coast guard agency said Sunday it was looking for a dinghy believed to be carrying dozens of migrants when it went missing after setting sail from Libya for Italy. The UN refugee agency told AFP it was "very worried" about the fate of what could be 85 migrants lost in Mediterranean Sea. Two German monitors of dangerous migrant crossings first reported spotting four boats in distress off the southern coast of Malta over the weekend. The European Union's Frontex border guard and coast guard agency later told AFP that one of the four boats had safely reached Italy and another two were still at sea. It said a fourth boat initially spotted on Friday was unaccounted for. "Frontex plane will fly again (Monday) morning in search of the remaining boat," a spokesman told AFP.

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