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Flower-topped coffins containing the bodies of the recovered dead were loaded into black funeral vans.

All those who took part in the rescue will receive counselling over the coming days, he said, to ensure they are coping with what they experienced, from men clinging desperately to life-rafts to women pleading with their last breath to be saved.

Police arrested the five men after speaking to numerous survivors during the night after they arrived in Palermo.

More than 200 migrants are feared to have drowned in the latest Mediterranean boat tragedy after rescuers saved over 370 people from a capsized boat thought to be carrying 600, the Italian coast guard indicated on Thursday. Arab migrants, on the other hand, were mostly beaten...