At least 130 African migrants have died after a boat bringing them to Europe caught fire, capsized and sank off the coast of Italy’s Lampedusa island. More than 100 bodies have been recovered and 150 people rescued, while some 200 are missing. The migrants are reportedly from Eritrea and Somalia. A spokesperson for the U.N. refugee agency called the incident “appalling.”

Adrian Edwards: “Our thoughts right now are with the families and the people affected themselves. But you have to think of the tragedy that lies behind this, which is that these people, many of them, are likely to have been fleeing war, fleeing persecution, fleeing human rights abuses in their own countries. So this is a tremendous tragedy of multiple layers.”