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More than 30 migrants, including a months-old baby, were killed and another 50 were rescued after their boat broke and sank in the rough seas off the coast of southern Italy.
The wooden boat allegedly ran into trouble at dawn in the Ionian Sea on Sunday near the southern coast of Italy’s mainland with 100 migrants onboard, authorities reported.
The Italian coast guard and firefighters have recovered more than 30 bodies after the accident near the coastal town of Crotone in the Calabria region.
State TV quoted the local prefect’s office as saying that by late morning 33 bodies had been recovered and 58 people were rescued.
The Italian news agency AGI said that among the bodies was that of a baby a few months old.
The Italian news agency Lapresse later quoted unidentified officials among rescue forces as saying there could have been as many as 180 people aboard.
State TV said some 27 of the survivors made it to shore, apparently on their own.
Wooden pieces of wreckage littered the beach at Steccato di Cutro, near the point where the boat apparently broke apart.
Firefighters, including rescue divers, had recovered 28 bodies, including three pulled by a strong current far away from the wreckage.
‘It’s an enormous tragedy,’ Crotone Mayor Vincenzo Voce told RAI state TV.
‘In solidarity, the city will find places in the cemetery’ for the dead, Voce said.
