Photos: Migrant ship rescue

Rescued migrants walk after disembarking from the Italian naval vessel Bettica in the harbor of Augusta, Sicily, on Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Italian Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti said human traffickers must be targeted with military intervention.   (Carmelo Imbesi / AP)

A boat off the coast of Calabria, Italy, carries 446 migrants who were rescued early on Tuesday.   (AFP/Getty Images)

Graziano Delrio, Italy’s minister of infrastructure and transport, on the Italian Coast Guard ship Gregretti, which is believed to be carrying 27 survivors of the migrant shipwreck.   (Tullio M. Puglia / Getty Images)

Mohammed Ali Malek, left, and Mahmud Bikhit, survivors of the boat that overturned off the coast of Libya.   (Alessandra Tarantino / AP AJM)

A migrant disembarks from the Italian Coast Guard ship Gregretti.   (Tullio M. Puglia / Getty Images)

Local residents and rescue workers help a migrant woman after a boat carrying migrants sank off the island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece. At least three people, including a child, died when the boat carrying more than 80 migrants sank.

Rescuers help children to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union to meet demands for decisive action.

Shipwrecked migrants disembark from a rescue vessel as they arrive in the Italian port of Augusta in Sicily. As many as 41 migrants drowned after a small boat carrying refugees sank in the Mediterranean, Italian media said.

A woman carries a child as she disembarks in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast on Saturday as rescuers approached.

Survivors from the shipwreck of a boat arrive aboard the tanker Maria Bottiglieri on Wednesday in the port of Corigliano Calabro. The Italian coast guard intercepted 42 boats on April 12 and 13, carrying 6,500 migrants attempting to make the hazardous crossing to Europe.

Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sit at a center for illegal migrants in the al-Karem district of the Libyan eastern port city of Misrata on Wednesday after their boat was intercepted by the Libyan coast guard.

Men carry a dead body inside a blanket on the shore in the eastern Aegean island of Rhodes, Greece. Authorities said that at least three people have died, including a child, after a wooden boat carrying many migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes.

Migrants arrive at Palermo’s harbor, Italy, after being rescued at sea. The U.N. refugee agency says the shipwreck in the Mediterranean this week, in which 400 migrants are presumed to have died, is among the deadliest single incidents in the last decade.

Survivors of the smuggler’s boat that overturned off the coast of Libya lie on the deck of the Italian coast guard ship Bruno Gregoretti, in Valletta’s Grand Harbour on Monday. A smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union to finally meet demands for decisive action.

Italian rescuers bring ashore bodies after a fishing boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast. Hundreds are feared dead following the disaster.

So far rescuers have saved 28 people and recovered 24 bodies.

An image from a video released by the Italian coast guard shows the Gregoretti ship during the search and rescue operations on the site of the ship capsizing in the Strait of Sicily on Sunday.

A picture provided by Guardia di Finanza shows an infrared camera screen shot during an operation to rescue migrants after their ship capsized in the Strait of Sicily on Sunday.