On that night, the boat carrying between 700 and 800 migrants, most of them African, capsized as a civilian freighter approached. The navy said it had raised the boat from a depth of 370 metres. ROME — The Italian navy said Wednesday it has recovered the migrant ship that sank off Sicily last year with an estimated 700-800 people aboard in one of the worst known tragedies of the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Most of the migrant boats that sink are never recovered, and the dead are never exhumed or identified. The April 18, 2015 wreck remains one of the deadliest on record, though the real number of drownings will never be known.

Source: National Post June 29, 2016 13:07 UTC