The victim’s bodies washed ashore close to where the vessel sank near Steccato di Cutro, a deepwater resort on the eastern seacoast of Calabria, while some of the bodies were recovered from still-stormy swell. Dozens were laid out in a sports hall in the neighbouring city of Crotone ahead of an eventual burial, as original people left flowers and candles on essence rails outside to show their respect.
One survivor was arrested on emigrant trafficking charges, customs police said. Numerous of those on board were allowed to be from Pakistan. Its Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said further than two dozen Pakistanis were believed to have been among those who drowned, and has asked diplomats to corroborate the data as soon as possible. As backing and relocation operations continue, a group of survivors of the deadly shipwreck are floundering to come to terms with the loss of their loved bones.
At a temporary event centre in the city of Isola di Capo Rizzuto, some of them were crying without speaking, some were just gaping into the void, wrapped in robes. “They’re heavily traumatised,” said Sergio Di Dato, from charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “Some children have lost their whole family. We’re offering them all the support we can”. Firefighter Inspector Giuseppe Larosa said what had particularly frightened the first deliverance crews who arrived on the scene was how numerous children had been killed. “It was a nipping scene. Bodies spread out on the sand, so numerous bodies, so numerous children,” he said on Monday morning. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said that further than two dozen Pakistanis were believed to have been among those who drowned.
Charity Croakers Without Borders (MSF), operating on the ground, said they were aiding several people who had lost cousins in the shipwreck. The boat that sank off Calabria departed from the western Turkish harborage of Izmir about four days ago and was spotted 74 km (46 long hauls) off the seacoast late on Saturday by an aeroplane operated by European Union border agency Frontex.