Sixty survivors were brought to a center in Lampedusa. There were 92 to 97 migrants on board when the boat departed Libya, according to survivor accounts. Authorities were still searching for any remaining survivors.

Sixty survivors were taken to a centre on Lampedusa following the disaster - with the Italian Red Cross saying four needed hospital treatment.

At least 26 people died in a migrant shipwreck off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday (Aug 13) and 60 were brought ashore, the coastguard said, adding that the death toll was still provisional amid ongoing search operations.