At least two migrants are dead and around 20 others are missing after their boat sank between Tunisia and Italy, the German NGO ResQship said on Sunday.
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Twenty-two people were also rescued by the Nadir, the NGO's ship.
They were landed Sunday afternoon on the Italian island of Lampedusa, said Stefen Seyfert, one of ResQship's managers.