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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.

It is feared up to 200 migrants may have drowned after an overcrowded boat they were on capsized in the Mediterranean.

The truly horrific details of some the migrants emerged today as many told police and the life-saving crews of the LE Niamh that they were stabbed and attacked during the perilous journey.