Migrant shipwreck death toll rises to 62 in southern Italy

Three other bodies were recovered this morning during the search for the missing from the shipwreck of the boat loaded with migrants that took place yesterday on the beach of Steccato di Cutro, Italy, Report informs via Italy 24 Press News.

The body of a man was found on the beach a few hundred meters from the disaster site. Another body was recovered in the sea, about 400 meters from the shore, by a Coast Guard patrol boat and the third in Le Castella, 3.5 nautical miles from the site of the accident. The total number of confirmed victims thus rises to 62.

Over 100 migrants are feared dead in Calabria, on the coast of Steccato di Cutro. There is still no reliable number of people who were on board the gulet which left Türkiye 4 days ago. According to some survivors there would have been around 180. For others many more, at least 250. At the moment around 80 people alive have been recovered, of the 80 survivors, 21 have been taken to hospital and one of them is seriously ill.