By Leigh Mcmanus For Mailonline
Published: 16:11 GMT, 19 January 2019 | Updated: 16:58 GMT, 19 January 2019
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Survivors say up to 117 migrants may have died when a rubber dinghy capsized off Libya, a rescue official said.
Three people were rescued from the vessel after it sank in the Mediterranean.
The group left Libya two days ago.
'The three survivors told us they were 120 when they left Garabulli, in Libya, on Thursday night. After 10 to 11 hours at sea ... (the boat) started sinking and people started drowning,' International Organisation for Migration spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo said on Saturday.
He said the people came mainly from west Africa, adding: 'Ten women including a pregnant girl were aboard and two children, one of whom was only two months old.'
An Italian military plane on sea patrol on Friday had first sighted the dinghy sinking in rough
