According to the Italian Coast Guard and a German charity, eleven migrants were killed and dozens reported missing after two shipwrecks near the southern coasts in Italy.

The German aid group RESQSHIP operates the Nadir Rescue Ship. It said that it picked up 51 victims from a wooden boat sinking, including two unconscious people, and discovered 10 bodies trapped on the lower deck.

"Our thoughts are always with their families." "We are angry and sad," wrote X.

RESQSHIP did not provide any details on the location or time of the rescue operation, but the marinetraffic.com tracker indicates that the Nadir was spotted Monday off the east Tunisian port Sfax.

Separately the Italian Coast Guard said that it was searching for an unknown number of missing migrants after the shipwreck a sailing vessel about 220 kilometers east of the southern region Calabria.

The partially sunken vessel, which is believed to have left a Turkish port at the time, was spotted first by a French boat on international waters, where Italian and Greek search zones overlap.

The French boat brought 12 survivors aboard, who were then transferred to an Italian coastguard patrol and then a cargo vessel. One person died shortly after the group was brought ashore in Calabria.

The Italian public broadcaster RAI reported that "at least" 50 migrants are missing. Veteran migration journalist Sergio Scandura, writing on X, said at least 64 people have not been found. He claimed that Afghans, Iranians, and Iraqi Kurds had been on the boat.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) of the United Nations reports that more than 23,500 migrants are dead or missing from the central Mediterranean region since 2014. This makes it the most dangerous migration route in the world.

In the first week of this month, 11 bodies were found in the sea near the coasts of Libya. (Reporting and editing by Crispian Fincher, Andrew Heavens, and Christina Fincher; Reporting by Gavin Jones and Romolo Armellini)