More than 300 migrants are feared drowned after their overcrowded dinghies sank in the Mediterranean on the way to Europe.
The victims are among migrants mainly from sub-Saharan Africa who had left Libya at the weekend in four small boats, the UN refugee agency said.
"This is a tragedy on an enormous scale and a stark reminder that more lives could be lost if those seeking safety are left at the mercy of the sea," UNHCR Europe director Vincent Cochetel said.
Details emerged after nine survivors out of a group of more than 200 packed into two dinghies were rescued by the Italian coastguard and taken to the island of Lampedusa.
"Nine were saved after four days at sea. The other 203 were swallowed by the waves," a UNHCR spokeswoman reported on Twitter.
The agency later said information gathered from the Italian coastguard and the survivors in Lampedusa suggested over 300 people were missing.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said the surviving migrants from the latest disaster spoke French, so probably came from west Africa.
"Because of the bad weather conditions, the two dinghies collapsed and the people fell at sea. Many drowned," said the IOM spokesman in Italy Flavio Di Giacomo.
Its spokesman in Geneva Joel Millman told AFP that information was coming in about another stricken boat and warned that the overall toll may reach as many as 350.
The tragedy is the latest in a whole series involving migrants trying to get to Europe from north Africa.
In the last year alone, several thousand people died on what the UN described as the most dangerous route in the world.
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