Nearly 1,500 people were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard and European Navy ships on Thursday.<br /><br /> Two rubber dinghies packed with 269 people were brought to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday evening. <br /><br /> Meanwhile, a photographer from the Associated Press news agency said authorities have been collecting the bodies of people who drowned off the Libyan coast on Thursday.<br /><br /> Two boats, one carrying 50 passengers and another carrying around 400 people, were reported to have sunk off Libya.<br /><br /> A Swedish coastguard ship brought the corpses of victims and hundreds of survivors to Palermo, Sicily. <br /><br /> Italian police have detained ten people on suspicion of multiple homicide after 52 migrants were found dead in the hull of a boat this week.
