More than 100 migrants’ bodies were recovered from the Mediterranean on Friday, after a smuggling boat capsized off the coast of Libya. According to the Associated Press, more than 1,000 people have lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean in the past 10 days.

On Wednesday, the UN Refugee Agency announced that it had spoken to survivors of a maritime disaster reported earlier this week, in which as many as 500 refugees and migrants are rumored to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, somewhere between Libya and Italy.

As many as 700 are feared dead after a ship carrying Libyan migrants capsized south of Italy last night, CNN reports. “If confirmed, this would be the worst disaster of recent years in the Mediterranean,” French President Francois Hollande told Canal+ television on Sunday

Authorities believe an estimated 300 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in dinghies were "swallowed by the waves" leaving only a handful of survivors off the Italian coast.