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According to the UN, at least 41 migrants drowned when a boat capsized in the Mediterranean.

The victims were among at least 120 inmates of an inflatable boat that broke into Libya on February 18, the UN said on Wednesday.

Her boat capsized two days later.

Only one body was recovered.

Among the missing are three children and four women.

The newborn baby of one of these women is in Lampedusa.

A ship rescued the survivors and brought them to the Italian port city of Porto Empedocle.

According to UN figures, around 160 migrants have died on the way to Europe along the central Mediterranean route since the beginning of the year. Libya is the main transit country for migrants fleeing poverty and war in Africa and the Middle East. Smugglers often put migrants in unseaworthy boats, with which the crossing to Europe is almost impossible.