The Italian navy has recovered another 24 bodies from an overturned fishing boat during rescue operations for the thousands of would-be refugees who are fleeing Libyan shores for Europe.
The navy said Tuesday that two of its patrol boats recovered the corpses from the capsized smuggler’s boat Sunday night. Their remains, as well as 364 survivors, were headed toward Augusta on Sicily’s east coast.
At a meeting Wednesday with the EU’s home affairs commissioner, Italy’s interior minister is expected to demand that the European Union do more to help Italy rescue the migrants.
More than 100,000 people have arrived in Italy so far this year thanks to increasing instability in Libya, where human smugglers operate. Some 42,000 arrived in all of 2013.
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