At least 40 people died A ship with at least a hundred migrants sank off the coast of the Italian region of Calabria in the south of the country, Coast Guard sources reported this Sunday to the newspaper ‘La Repubblica’.
ship completely overloadedaccording to these sources and sank in the waters of Steccato di Cutro in the province of Crotona.
Among the dozens of dead bodies washed up on the beach Newborn, As ‘La Stampa’ newspaper sources report.
While rescuers continue to work in search of survivors, initial investigations have shown that migrants are in principle Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan; and that the shipwreck was mainly caused by the terrible sea conditions that split the ship in two.