Six people died and 40 are missing after a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean, the United Nations said Wednesday, with Italian media reporting the boat went down off the island of Lampedusa.

Axar.az informs citin AFP, “Still too many dead in a new shipwreck in the Mediterranean,” UNHCR’s Italy representative Chiara Cardoletti said on X, adding that the inflatable dinghy had left Tunisia on Monday carrying 56 people.

“After a few hours of sailing, the dinghy began to deflate and take on water. Six bodies (were) recovered. Forty missing,” she said.

Italy’s coast guard and financial police pulled 10 people to safety—six men and four women—off the tiny rocky outcrop of Lampione, according to Italian media reports.

Those rescued said there had been 56 people on board when it left, but only six bodies—all male—were recovered from the area, the reports said.

Survivors said some of the missing had fallen overboard in rough seas, according to the AGI news agency.

The migrants were from the Ivory Coast, Mali, Gambia, and Cameroon, it said.