GENEVA， April 20 (Xinhua) -- As many as 500 people may have lost their lives when a large ship went down in the Mediterranean Sea at an unknown location between Libya and Italy this weekend， the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.


In a press release， UNHCR said that if confirmed， this could be one of the worst tragedies involving refugees and migrants in the last 12 months.


UNHCR said that the information was based on interviews with a group of survivors， including 37 men， three women and a three-year-old child， who were rescued by a merchant ship and taken to Kalamata， in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece on April 16.


Those rescued include 23 Somalis， 11 Ethiopians， 6 Egyptians and a Sudanese， UNHCR said.


"The survivors told us that they had been part of a group of between 100 and 200 people who departed last week from a locality near Tobruk in Libya on a 30-meter boat. After sailing for several hours， the smugglers in charge of the boat attempted to transfer the passengers to a larger ship carrying hundreds of people in terribly overcrowded conditions， and at one point during the transfer， the larger boat capsized and sank，" the statement said.


According to the UN agency， the 41 survivors include people who had not yet boarded the larger vessel， as well as some who managed to swim back to the smaller boat.


"They drifted at sea possibly for three days before being spotted and rescued on April 16，" UNHCR noted.


The UN agency visited the survivors at the local stadium of Kalamata where they have been temporarily housed by local authorities as they undergo police procedures.

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RIO DE JANEIRO， Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Huang Wenpan celebrated his fourth victory in Rio's pool on Thursday as China added another nine golds to its Paralympic Games medal tally here.


Huang shattered the world record to win the 200m freestyle S3 final in three minutes and 9.04 seconds at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.


The 21-year-old's time was 7.41 seconds faster than the previous record set by his countryman Li Hanhua in 2010.


Despite his extraordinary time， Huang was pushed to the limit by Ukraine's Dmytro Vynohradets， who grabbed silver， just 0.73sec behind. Li took bronze in 3:23.10.


Huang， who was born with cerebral palsy， has also won the 50m breaststroke SB2， 50m freestyle S3 and the mixed 4x50m freestyle 20 points at the Games.


His latest triumph was one of four swimming gold medals won by China on the eighth day of competition here.


Others to secure victories were Xie Qing， Zou Liankang and Xu Jialing.


Xie claimed the second Paralympic gold medal of her career - eight years after the first - by winning the 100m freestyle.


The visually impaired 28-year-old clocked one minute and 8.3 seconds to beat compatriot Li Guizhi by 28 hundredths of a second. Liesette Bruinsma of the Netherlands took bronze in 1:08.55.


Xie's first Paralympic Games triumph came in the same race at the Beijing 2008 Games. She finished fifth in the event in London four years ago.


Thursday's victory gave Xie her second medal at these Games after her bronze in the women's 400m freestyle S11 on Saturday.


Zou earned his second gold medal of the Rio Paralympics， breaking the world record in the 50m backstroke S2 final.


The 21-year-old finished in 47.17.