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With tears in her eyes, she tossed a bouquet of yellow flowers into the water.

Her brother, Abdullah, is not ready to leave his Syrian hometown of Kobani, where his sons and wife Rehanna were buried on Friday, she said. I have buried my soul, feelings and mind in the grave.

The child was on board a boat full of refugees trying to make it to safety in Europe.

“People at Budapest’s Keleti railway station demanding to be allowed free passage are demanding something which is not possible under European legislation”, government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said.

But Giro-Szasz says that Germany has shown a more permissive stance towards illegal immigrants arriving from Syria, adding that the news has “boosted hopes” among migrants.

Along with the 313 people rescued from the fishing boat and the 49 bodies, the Siem Pilot was also carrying 103 migrants from a separate rescue by a German ship, AFP reports.

They were taken on board and are receiving water, food and medical assistance.

According to reports from the Italian authorities, some of the survivors has confirmed the news that many are still missing as far as 50 more people who onboard is still missing.

Another call came for rescue at 5pm Irish time – 375 more people needed to be taken from Italian vessel the Mimbelli. Italy has arrested five North African men in connection with the incident, on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking.

GENEVA-(ENEWSPF)-6 August 2015 – nearly 400 people have been rescued so far from a vessel which sank off the coast of Libya while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea with an estimated 600 refugees and migrants on board, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

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

Survivors of the capsizing and sinking of a fishing boat crowded with migrants are brought aboard Irish and Italian Navy life-boats to the Dignity I MSF search and rescue vessel which responded to the emergency in the Mediterranean sea off Libya, Wednesday, August 5, 2015.

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.

Hopes pale of discovering extra survivors on Thursday from a shipwreck through which 200 migrants are feared drowned, as rescue ships have been referred to as to assistance from extra migrant boats in the identical space of the Mediterranean.