By mid-morning, about 40 survivors had been found, said Luca Cari, a spokesperson for firefighters who were involved in rescue efforts.
“At the moment there are various victims,” he said, without specifying a number of dead as rescue efforts were still underway.
The Italian news agency AGI put the number of recovered bodies at 27 and said a baby a few months old was among the dead.
The radio report said vessels from the coast guard, border police and firefighters were involved in rescue efforts.
The coast guard was not immediately available for more details.
Details about the nationalities of the migrants were not immediately provided in the reports. It was not immediately clear where the boat had set out from, but migrant vessels arriving in Calabria depart from Turkish or Egyptian shores.
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