Italy declares day of mourning as over 300 migrants feared dead
Italian rescue workers have found 111 bodies after a migrant boat sank off the island of Lampedusa yesterday.
They expect to recover more than a hundred more from the submerged wreck, a coastguard official said this morning.
Authorities have rescued 155 survivors after the 20m boat carrying around 500 migrants, mostly Eritreans and Somalis, sank no more than 1km from shore.
"Two motorboats remained in the area overnight and this morning divers resumed work but we expect to recover more than a hundred bodies from the ship," coast guard official Floriana Segreto told Reuters.
In all, more than 300 people are believed to have died in one of the worst tragedies in Europe's decades-long migrant crisis.
Italian rescue workers have found 111 bodies after a migrant boat sank off the island of Lampedusa yesterday.
They expect to recover more than a hundred more from the submerged wreck, a coastguard official said this morning.
Authorities have rescued 155 survivors after the 20m boat carrying around 500 migrants, mostly Eritreans and Somalis, sank no more than 1km from shore.
"Two motorboats remained in the area overnight and this morning divers resumed work but we expect to recover more than a hundred bodies from the ship," coast guard official Floriana Segreto told Reuters.
In all, more than 300 people are believed to have died in one of the worst tragedies in Europe's decades-long migrant crisis.