Soldiers carry the body of a victim of a shipwreck off Sicily in Lampedusa harbor October 6, 2013. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello
LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) - Italian divers recovered dozens more bodies from a sunken migrant boat on Monday but struggled to free more corpses trapped inside the hulk before night fell.
Over 300 people are feared drowned after the packed boat caught fire and capsized just 1 kilometre from their destination, the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, last week.
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