COSTELLO: We're following a tragic story out of Europe this morning, CNN has learned as many as 500 migrants are dead, drowned after their boat capsized on Saturday in the Mediterranean somewhere between Libya and Italy. Ben Wedeman is following the story from Rome. Hi, Ben.</s>BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Hi, Carol. Yes, as you mentioned according to the UNHCR, as many as 500 dying at this catastrophe at sea. Now the UNHCR spoke to some of the 41 survivors who recounted that they were on a boat with somewhere between 100 and 200 people. They left Tobruk in eastern Libya. Somewhere in the middle of the Mediterranean they met up with a larger ship which had several hundred people on board. And they were told to transfer on to that larger ship. Now as that process was going on, the larger ship capsized and sank. Now some of the 41 people were on the larger boat and managed to swim to the smaller boat. Now that smaller boat drifted at sea for three days before being picked up by a merchant ship flying a Filipino flag and those 41 survivors were taken to Kalamata in Greece where they're being taken care of in a stadium there. Now this comes just almost exactly one year after a similar disaster at sea whereas many as 850 migrants and refugees died when their ship capsized. Carol.</s>COSTELLO: So sad. Ben Wedeman reporting live from Rome. Thank you. And thank you for joining me today. AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND BOLDUAN starts now.
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