Italy recovers 217 bodies of refugees from sunken ship

‘Italian emergency workers have recovered at least 217 bodies of refugees from the wreck of an overcrowded boat that sank in the Mediterranean last year.
In a statement on Thursday, the Navy said a team of 150 professionals from Italian Red Cross, the Navy, fire service, and a forensic team of Milan university professors were working around the clock to examine the bodies.
Autopsies have been carried out on more than 50 of the victims, it added.’
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