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More than 200 bodies recovered from migrant shipwreck, Italy says
Italian authorities have recovered 217 bodies from a migrant ship that sank off the coast of Libya in April 2015, the Italian navy said this week. Italian authorities have said only 28 people survived the disaster, which has been labeled one of the deadliest of the migrant crisis. Some 700 people were on board the ship when it...
Migrant crisis: Many feared dead in shipwreck off Libya
Up to 30 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast while some 77 were rescued by EU naval units from the sea. Ships from an EU task force and Italy's coast guard raced to the scene 35 nautical miles (65km) off the coast as survivors clung to the hull or swam. The Italian navy...
Migrant tragedy: Anatomy of a shipwreck
An unprecedented operation by the Italian Navy is under way off the coast of Libya to recover the wreck of a migrant boat that sank in April last year — leading to the deaths of up to 700 migrants, the largest single loss of life in the Mediterranean in decades. Only 28 people survived the sinking on the night of 18 April...