Two Nigerian siblings aged 11 and 10, have been rescued in the Mediterranean on Friday while trying to cross from Libya to Europe with their mother.

However, according to reports, their mother was not lucky as she drowned at sea.

According to Dailymail, the children were part of 150 migrants rescued by an NGO’s boat while trying to make the journey from Libya to Europe aboard an overcrowded craft.

Photographs of the boy and girl by Associated Press have surfaced all over the internet of the two as they sobbed and comforted each other aboard a rescue boat.

A leading migration group had said more than 3,000 people had died while trying to cross the Mediterranean this year, nearly a 60 per cent increase from this time in 2015.

The latest rescue came after Italy on Thursday launched a hard-hitting campaign on the Internet, TV, radio and social media to warn African migrants of the many dangers they face in trying to reach Europe.

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