Shipwreck off Italy: stadium filled with coffins of migrants

Shipwreck off Italy: Stadium filled with coffins of migrants

Wailing and other expressions of grief echoed through a sports complex in southern Italy as public viewing began Wednesday of the closed coffins holding the bodies of dozens of migrants who died in a shipwreck.

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The coffins of 65 victims of a devastating migrant shipwreck off Italy's southern coast were laid out on Tuesday in a local sports hall, five of them small and white, containing the bodies of the youngest children that died.

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Shipwreck off Italy: Stadium filled with coffins of migrants

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The coffins of dozens of migrants who died in a shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast have been laid out in rows inside a sports complex for public viewing. The wailing of survivors and other family members filled the stadium. Sea and air searchers kept up operations on Wednesday for the many still believed missing after the boat broke apart in rough water just off a beach before dawn on Sunday in …

Stadium filled with coffins of shipwrecked migrants

Survivors and other family members of dozens of migrants who died in a shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast have been paying respects at a sports complex as public viewing of rows of closed coffins began.