Rescuers recovered three more bodies on Monday, a day after a wooden sailboat carrying migrants to Europe smashed onto rocks in inclement weather off southern Italy, bringing the death toll to 62, including at least 14 children.
The disaster has reopened a debate on migration in Europe and Italy, where the recently elected right-wing government'sfor migrant rescue charities have drawn criticism from the United Nations and others.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants have reached Italy by boat over the past decade, fleeing conflict and poverty back home.has also registered more than 20,000 deaths and disappearances in the central Mediterranean since 2014, including more than 220 this year, making it the most dangerous migrant route in the world.
The boat that sank off Calabria departed from the western Turkish port of Izmir about four days ago and was spotted 74 km off the coast late on Saturday by a plane operated by European Union border agency Frontex.One survivor was arrested on migrant trafficking charges on Sunday, but the Guardia di Finanza customs police said two more people were suspected of having aided the alleged smuggler.
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