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| Italy extracts 217 bodies from hull of sunken migrant ship |
| 2016-07-08 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Italian navy officials say they have recovered 217 bodies from the hull of a migrant ship that sank off Libya last year in a tragedy that sparked the EU to beef up Mediterranean rescue operations. Italian authorities raised the ship from the seabed last week and have been working to remove and identify the bodies ever since. In a statement Thursday, the navy said 52 autopsies had been performed on the 217 bodies pulled out so far. Some of the 28 survivors of the April 18, 2015 wreck had said as many as 700-800 people were aboard, leading officials to label it one of the worst known tragedies of the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Around 200 bodies were initially recovered; after officials saw the ship’s dimensions, they suggested about 300 remained. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Yeah, but think of it as the start of an artificial reef. All those fish need to be fed somehow. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2016-07-08 20:49 |
| #3 Real world Diver (et. al.) training in coastal recovery operations. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-07-08 14:52 |
| #2 Virtue Signalling |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-07-08 08:42 |
| #1 Pardon me if I am insensitive, but why recover the bodies? Why do autopsies to find they drowned? Maybe some were poisoned? Shot? We left 1,102 sailors interred in the USS Arizona. Do we need to 'recover' those guys and do autopsies? Or is it all about open borders and free migration? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-07-08 07:46 |