Photos: Migrant ship rescue
Hundreds feared lost as ship crowded with migrants capsizes in Mediterranean.
Local residents and rescue workers help a migrant woman after a boat carrying migrants sank off the island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece. At least three people, including a child, died when the boat carrying more than 80 migrants sank.
(Argiris Mantikos / AFP/Getty Images)Rescuers help children to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the
Shipwrecked migrants disembark from a rescue vessel as they arrive in the Italian port of Augusta in Sicily. As many as 41 migrants drowned after a small boat carrying refugees sank in the Mediterranean, Italian media said.
(Giovanni Isolino / AFP/Getty Images)A woman carries a child as she disembarks in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast on Saturday as rescuers approached.
(Alessandra Tarantino / Associated Press)Survivors from the shipwreck of a boat arrive aboard the tanker Maria Bottiglieri on Wednesday in the port of Corigliano Calabro. The Italian coast guard intercepted 42 boats on April 12 and 13, carrying 6,500 migrants attempting to make the hazardous crossing to Europe.
(Alfonso di Vincenzo / AFP/Getty Images)Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sit at a center for illegal migrants in the al-Karem district of the Libyan eastern port city of Misrata on Wednesday after their boat was intercepted by the Libyan coast guard.
(Mahmud Turkia / AFP/Getty Images)Men carry a dead body inside a blanket on the shore in the eastern Aegean island of Rhodes, Greece. Authorities said that at least three people have died, including a child, after a wooden boat carrying many migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes.
(Nikolas Nanev / Associated Press)Migrants arrive at Palermo’s harbor, Italy, after being rescued at sea. The U.N. refugee agency says the shipwreck in the Mediterranean this week, in which 400 migrants are presumed to have died, is among the deadliest single incidents in the last decade.
(Alessandro Fucarini / Associated Press)Survivors of the smuggler’s boat that overturned off the coast of Libya lie on the deck of the Italian coast guard ship Bruno Gregoretti, in Valletta’s Grand Harbour on Monday. A smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the
Italian rescuers bring ashore bodies after a fishing boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast. Hundreds are feared dead following the disaster.
(Matthew Mirabelli / AFP/Getty Images)So far rescuers have saved 28 people and recovered 24 bodies.
(Matthew Mirabelli / AFP/Getty Images)An image from a video released by the Italian coast guard shows the Gregoretti ship during the search and rescue operations on the site of the ship capsizing in the Strait of Sicily on Sunday.
(Italian coast guard / EPA)A picture provided by Guardia di Finanza shows an infrared camera screen shot during an operation to rescue migrants after their ship capsized in the Strait of Sicily on Sunday.
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