US EditionAs death toll rises to 81, new accounts clash with official version of migrant disaster off Greece
- The suspected smugglers of the Mediterranean Sea shipwreck that claimed scores of lives are expected to face manslaughter charges in Greece this week and nine Egyptian suspects have requested, and been granted, a postponement of their arraignment hearing.
- Although the confirmed death toll has risen to 80, hundreds more are feared to have died in the disaster, which involved a fishing boat packed with hundreds of migrants that sank off the south-west coast of Greece after leaving Libya.
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New accounts clash with official version of migrant disaster off Greece
The number of confirmed victims from one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean rose to 81 Monday after three more bodies were found off southern Greece, as more survivors claimed that the battered trawler had been under tow by another vessel just before it sank with hundreds of people aboard.
The confirmed death toll from the sinking of the fishing boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy rose to 81 after three more bodies were found.
As death toll rises to 81, new accounts clash with official version of migrant disaster off Greece
The number of confirmed victims from one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean rose to 81 Monday after three more bodies were found off southern Greece, as more survivors claimed that the battered trawler had been under tow by another vessel just before it sank with hundreds of people aboard.
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