“The rescue operations … are particularly complex due to the large number of people on board the boats adrift,” the coastguard said in a statement on Friday.
An estimated 1,300 people were believed to be in danger.
Coastguard vessels were dispatched to rescue 500 people on a boat about 1,125km (700 miles) off the region that forms the toe of the boot-shaped Italian Peninsula.
Other vessels were sent to rescue 800 people on two more boats in difficulty about 160km (100 miles) off Calabria.
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