Rescue teams have pulled another body from the sea.
People leave flowers during a candlelight vigil for the victims of a migrant boat that broke apart in rough seas, in Crotone, southern Italy, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. The death toll has risen to 62 in the migrant tragedy off Italy's southern coast after rescue crews recovered three more bodies. Dozens more were believed to be missing. Children were among the dead after a wooden boat broke up in stormy seas on the reefs near the Calabrian coast on Sunday.
“We are looking into possibilities to send them to Afghanistan, the bodies that are here,” he told The Associated Press outside the morgue. But he complained about a lack of information as authorities scrambled to cope with the disaster. “We are helpless here. We don’t know what we should do.” Premier Giorgia Meloni sent a letter to European leaders demanding quick action to respond to the continent’s longstanding migration problem, insisting that only way to deal with it seriously and humanely is to stop migrants from risking their lives on dangerous sea crossings.
Italy’s customs police said in a statement that organizers of the crossing charged 8,000 euros each for the “voyage of death.” Piantedosi told a parliamentary committee Tuesday that the ship ran aground on the shoal about 100 meters offshore and broke apart at around 5 a.m. Sunday.
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