Relatives of some of the 67 people who drowned in a shipwreck off southern Italy wept and prayed over their coffins on Wednesday as families of survivors and victims arrived in Calabria to claim their loved ones.
Rescue workers continue their search for the dead, with the body of a five-year-old boy last recovered on Wednesday morning.
Weeping women and men were led among the rows of coffins laid out in a sports hall in the southern Italian coastal city of Crotone, some kneeling in silent prayer, while others howled in grief.
The migrants’ wooden boat, packed with passengers who paid smugglers for the journey from Turkey, broke up in rough water just off a beach in Calabria before dawn on Sunday.