Around 500 migrants are believed to have died after their ship was a ship near Malta traffickers crashed last week.

Information survivors are two Palestinians said the International Organization for Migration (IOM). According to these two men, their ship was intentionally rammed into another train. Sunken ship left Damietta in Egypt in early September.

IOM said more than 2,500 people are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean this year.

Information about shipwrecks near Malta appears when another boat carrying 250 people sank off the coast and Libya.

More than 200 people are thought to have been killed in the incident.

IOM spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume said two people survived the shipwreck in Malta was saved last week on Thursday, a day after their vessel sank.

"The survivors recounted that the traffickers were up two ships and immigrants require changes to other ships at sea. Immigrants told to do so too dangerous and they refused. Tension straight has exploded and the traffickers who used their ships crashing into the boat immigrants, "she said Christiane Berthiaume.

IOM said that so far they know survivors of 9 cases. According to survivors, the ship carrying Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Sudan.

Malta is currently no official comment.

The United Nations says more than 130,000 immigrants to Europe via sea this year, compared with 80,000 last year. Italy has received 118,000 immigrants. And more than half of them are coming from Syria and Eritrea.

Many people were crossing from North Africa, the Middle East over the unsafe vessel.