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64 people missing and many rescued from 2 shipwrecks off Italy. At least 11 have died

ROME (AP) — U.N. agencies say 64 people are missing after a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea and several were rescued by the Italian coast guard. In a separate shipwreck, rescuers found 10 bodies of suspected migrants on a wooden boat off Italy’s tiny Lampedusa island. That’s according to the German aid group Resqship. U.N. agencies said the boat that wrecked off Calabria had set off from Turkey eight days earlier and caught fire and overturned. Eleven people were rescued Monday, but one died soon after they were brought to land. The German aid group said it evacuated more than 50 people from the wooden boat and found 10 bodies in the flooded lower deck.

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