Bodies Found In The Sea, Including Young Couple That Are United Even In Death.

 

                                  Footage of sunken boat containing bodies of migrants

The remains of other people in the ship that was carrying 366 migrants trying to get into Italy illegally that caught fire and sank last September, just two miles off the island of Lampedusa, killing almost all the occupants in it, whom were mostly Somalis and Eritreans, have been found.................. More Below:

                            The Young Couple Still Unites Even In Death

The most .heartbreaking one is a young couple found clinging to each other in the shadow of the sunken hull even in death. They were discovered this week after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants sunk 100 miles south of Lampedusa. Despite desperate rescue attempts, at least 17 migrants still drowned, with many still missing.

          The body of an African would-be migrant washed up on the shore of al-Qarboli in Libya

Last week at least 40 perished in another wreck when their trawler sank off the coast of Libya all in a bid to get into Italy. 

The release of the footage following the new tragedies recalls the full horror of last year's wreck when rescue workers described 'a cemetery in the sea'.
At the time police diver Renato Sollustri said he had not slept since he brought up two corpses, a baby hidden in the folds of his mother's white leggings, under pulled-down trousers.

   Those rescued from the sunken ship were taken by the Italian navy to Catania harbour in Sicily

 

17 bodies have so far been recovered by the Italian navy. Here coffins containing the bodies were carried off the rescue ship

Survivors of the sunken vessel were temporarily taken to a sports hall in Catania where they were given makeshift beds

  Officials list the identifications of migrants in a sports hall in Catania which has been converted into a makeshift home for survivors