(Photo: Reuters)Rome: Italian emergency workers have recovered 217 bodies from the wreck of a boat that sank in the Mediterranean in April 2015, killing some 500 migrants, the Navy said on Thursday. In 2015, at least 3,770 people are thought to have died on Mediterranean routes, mostly by drowning when their boats capsized. The sinking was one of the worst known disasters involving migrants trying to reach Europe by sea. The vessel was hauled off the seabed and taken to a naval site in southeastern Sicily last week. Thousands of people a year, many of them fleeing war in the Middle East, have crossed the Mediterranean in unseaworthy or overcrowded boats.

Source: Standard Digital July 07, 2016 10:18 UTC