A rescue worker stands near coffins of victims from a shipwreck off Sicily, in a hangar of the Lampedusa airport October 5, 2013. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The death of hundreds of African migrants in a shipwreck off Sicily has led to anguished calls for Europe-wide action to tackle mass migration, but divisions among EU states mean the bloc's response is likely to fall short of expectations.
The European Union, under pressure to show it is responding to the disaster off Lampedusa that killed 297 people, many of them women and children, has promised 30 million euros in emergency cash for Italy and proposed expanding search and rescue patrols across the vast southern Mediterranean.
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