By AFP
28 February 2023 | 4:03 pm
The death toll from a devastating shipwreck off Italy's southern coast rose to 64 on Tuesday, while three men were in detention accused of human trafficking, officials said.
A photograph taken on February 28, 2023 shows a onesie and pieces of wodd washed up on the beach, two days after a boat of migrants sank off Italy’s southern Calabria region, in Steccato di Cutro, south of Crotone. – The overloaded wooden boat broke up and sank early on February 26, 2023 in stormy seas off Italy’s southern coast, with bodies, shoes and debris washing up along a long stretch of shoreline. The death toll rose on February 27, 2023 to 62 people, a coast guard official told AFP — and that number looked likely to increase. (Photo by Alessandro SERRANO / AFP)
The death toll from a devastating shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast rose to 64 on Tuesday, while three men were in detention accused of human trafficking, officials said.
The “alleged smugglers” held following Sunday’s shipwreck of a boat loaded with migrants heading for Europe included two Pakistanis and a Turkish national, a police spokesman told AFP.
Italy’s coastguard on Tuesday morning recovered another body on the beach at Steccato, in the southern region of Calabria, bringing the death toll to 64, a spokeswoman for the fire service told AFP.
She said the number of dead was expected to further rise, although it was unclear how many people were on the boat.
The coffins of the dead have been laid out in a sports hall in Crotone, to allow mourners to pay their respects.
The migrants’ overloaded wooden vessel broke up and sank early Sunday in stormy seas, with bodies, shoes and debris washing up along a long stretch of shoreline.
EU border agency Frontex had earlier spotted a ship which it said had been carrying about 200 people sailing towards Italy, but two patrol boats dispatched by the Italian authorities were unable to intercept the vessel due to the bad weather.
The Italian coastguard on Sunday said about 150 people had been on board, with 79 survivors rescued.
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