Relatives pay respects as toll from Italy migrant boat wreck rises to 67


Mourners react near coffins of victims who died in a migrant shipwreck, in Crotone, Italy March 1, 2023. REUTERS/Remo Casilli

CROTONE, Italy (Reuters) - The relatives of victims of Sunday's boat wreck off Italy commemorated their loved ones on Wednesday in a sports hall in the Calabrian city of Crotone, where the coffins of more than 60 migrants who perished in the incident were laid out.

The death toll of the migrant shipwreck near the southern Italian coast has risen to 67, Italian authorities said on Wednesday, with many people still unaccounted for. Rescuers found two more children, bringing the underage victims of the tragedy to 16, provincial government officials said.

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