Premier Giorgia Meloni cried during a
meeting at Palazzo Chigi on Thursday with survivors and
relatives of the victims of the February 26 shipwreck off
Steccato di Cutro in Italy's southern Calabria region, a
survivor present at the meeting said on Friday.
The man, from Syria, described the prime minister as very
"emotionally charged".
"She asked us about our sufferings and when we told her she
started to cry. She really took part. Anyone who wanted to tell
their story was able to do so," he said.
86 refugees and migrants are known to have died in the
shipwreck, which occurred after a fishing boat thought to be
carrying around 180 people mainly from Afghanistan, Syria and
Iran ran aground and broke up in shallow water near the coast
after four days' sailing from Turkey.
80 people survived the tragedy, while around 20 people are still
thought to be missing, feared dead.
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