About 400 migrants are feared drowned after their boat capsized off Libya, survivors have told Save the Children.
The Italian coast guard had rescued 144 people on Monday and immediately launched an air and sea search operation in hopes of rescuing others.
Survivors say the latest tragedy happened after the boat, carrying about 550 migrants in total, overturned a day after leaving the Libyan coast.
Nine bodies have already been recovered, but no more survivors have been found since the search was launched.
An estimated 3,400 migrants died in 2014 while trying to make the treacherous crossing into Europe.
On Friday, humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres announced it would operate a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean between May and October.
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