Up To 900 Feared Dead As Migrant Boat Capsizes in Mediterranean

European officials have said that as many as 900 migrants are presumed dead after a an overloaded boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea as in attempted to carry migrants from North Africa to Europe on Sunday evening. 

The shipwreck took place Sunday night as hundreds of Libyan immigrants crowded a small fishing boat to travel to European countries, mainly Italy, to escape the war and poverty of northern Africa.

Of the hundreds of bodies found after the shipwreck, authorities report that only 28 survivors were found.

Sunday's shipwreck, which some are suggesting is the worst to ever occur in the Mediterranean, caused European leaders to hold press conferences to address what is now being called a humanitarian crisis of migrants attempting to travel into Europe.

"What happened on Sunday was a game changer," Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of Malta said at a news conference with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy, according to the New York Times. "There is a new realization that if Europe doesn't act as a team, history will judge it very harshly, as it did when it closed its eyes to stories of genocide — horrible stories — not long ago."

European Council President Donald Tusk also called for a summit meeting of European Union leaders this Thursday to discuss the current humanitarian crisis, which involves human traffickers attempting to bring migrants into Europe.

"The situation in the Mediterranean is dramatic. It cannot continue like this," Tusk said in a statement to reporters, according to Reuters.