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ROME-About 25 people died when a fishing boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized on Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea, around 15 miles north of the Libyan coast, the Italian coast guard said.
The boat crammed with migrants capsized as soon as the Irish vessel arrived, he said, probably because all those on board moved to one side at the same time.
So far, 25 bodies have been recovered from the water but it is thought as many as 200 may have drowned, with the search continuing. They could face charges of involvement in illegal immigration and homicide.
Police stated “the criminals every took on a transparent position”, with one in cost and the others tasked with controlling the migrants by means of violence.
“We don’t know how many people might be trapped within the belly of the boat that capsized and sunk, that’s our greatest fear tonight”, MSF, whose Dignity 1 rescue ship was on the scene, said in a Tweet late on Wednesday.
When water began seeping in, “the migrants, on the traffickers’ orders, tried desperately to get rid of it”, the police said.
“European governments must do more to provide safe and legal ways for people in need of protection to enter the European Union, rather than risking their lives at sea in their thousands”, the Amnesty worldwide human rights group said in a statement.
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An Italian military helicopter dropped additional life rafts into the sea, where 150 people were initially spotted, Gallagher said. Safer places on board cost more; life vests were sold separately as extras, police said. Only 28 people, including two alleged smugglers, survived.
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Survivors told them migrants from Africa had been put in the hold, and that “they could be closed in and compacted in the hull for three days, having paid half price for the crossing”. Shoulder to shoulder, feet to feet, in every nook and cranny, so much that when a rescue boat approached, people became anxious and excited and tipped the boat over so that it capsized.
