More than 300 migrants are missing after their boats sank in the Mediterranean, according to international agencies.
The information has come from nine survivors who arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday.
They were among more than 300 who had left Libya on Saturday in two rubber dinghies, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.
"Nine were saved after four days at sea. The other 203 were swallowed by the waves," a UN refugee agency spokeswoman said on Twitter.
The IOM said the surviving migrants spoke French, so probably came from west African nations such as Ivory Coast and Senegal.
"Because of the bad weather conditions, the two dinghies collapsed and the people fell at sea. Many drowned," IOM official Flavio Di Giacomo said.
He said the migrants had left with another dinghy carrying a group of Africans, 29 of whom died from exposure.
The tragedy is the latest in a whole series involving migrants trying to get to Italy from North Africa.
The crossing is short but perilous and the vessels used are often overcrowded and in poor condition.
Earlier this week, the Italian coastguard said at least 29 people had died from hypothermia while travelling from North Africa to Italy's coast.
In late December the coastguard said they narrowly averted a "massacre" after a cargo ship was abandoned off the southern coast of Italy with more than 900 Syrian refugees on board.
Officers said the Blue Sky M's engines had been locked and its steering set on a course which would have seen it run aground in Italy's Puglia region.
A few days later another cargo ship was found abandoned by its crew off Italy with over 300 migrants on board, mostly from Syria.
The Italian navy took control of the ageing Sierra Leone-flagged ship, the Ezadeen, and steered it to the port of Corigliano Calabro.
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