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2 people are dead, 20 missing, as a migrant boat sinks off the coast of Tunisia

A picture provided by German humanitarian organization Sea-Watch shows a boat in distress with some 400 people on board in the central Mediterranean Sea on Sunday. (Giacomo Zorzi/AP)

ROME — At least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy, German aid group ResQship said on Monday. Meanwhile, Italian authorities said operations were under way to rescue about 1,200 people on two migrant ships intercepted off the country's shores.

ResQship said its rescuers reached the area of the wreck on Saturday and found about 25 people in the water, who said they had been there for two hours.

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