A ship with more than 4000 migrants sunk near the shores of Egypt.
BBC News report that most of the passengers were citizens of Somali, however there were also refugees from Syria and Ethiopia. The number of drowned is still unknown. According to the president of Italy, there may be few hundreds victims.
The information about the wreck was shared by the relatives of the refugees in the social networks and later it was confirmed by the Ambassador of Somali in Egypt.