Naval engineers attached salvage equipment to bring the sunken boat to the surface two days ago, with the aim of taking it to a refrigerated facility in the Sicilian town of Augusta, the Italian navy said Wednesday. MILAN—An Italian naval operation has recovered a vessel that sank last year off the Libyan coast with the loss of around 700 lives in the single deadliest accident in the long-running Mediterranean migrant crisis.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 29, 2016 11:25 UTC