Ministers meet as capsize toll may hit 950

European Union foreign ministers gathered for an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the growing crisis as migrants flee instability in Libya, with hundreds feared dead from a smugglers' boat that capsized off the Libyan coast.

A survivor from the vessel has put the number of people on board at 950, an increase on the 700 initially feared dead on Sunday.

The survivor, identified as a 32-year-old Bangladeshi, was flown by helicopter to Catania in Sicily, where he was interviewed by prosecutors. He was being treated in a hospital.