23 dead in migrant boat wreck (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, November 3 - The bodies of 23 migrants were recovered Friday after a boat heading for Italy sank in the central Mediterranean. Some 64 people on the boat, who ended up in the water, were saved by a EUNavForMed ship belonging to the EU's Operation Sophia. The bodies and the survivors are being taken to a port in Sicily.