The toll from an Italy-bound migrant
shipwreck off the Libyan port of Zuara has risen to 34 and could
go higher, with several children among those drowned, Coast
Guard sources said Wednesday.
"Perhaps as many as a dozen children" were killed, rescuers
said.
Thirty of the 31 bodies have been transferred to the ship
Fenix and the remaining one onto the ship Fiorillo, as a search
continued in the area.
The Coast Guard is coordinating 14 ships across the central
Mediterranean where fine weather has helped make migrant traffic
"intense", the sources said.
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