Wailing and other expressions of grief echoed through a sports complex in southern Italy as public viewing began Wednesday of the closed coffins holding the bodies of dozens of migrants who died in a shipwreck.
Meanwhile, the search by air and sea to spot any of the many believed still to be missing continued for a fourth day. Italian state TV and the LaPresse news agency said a child's body was the latest of three corpses to be recovered, raising the confirmed death toll to 67.
The coffins -- brown ones for adults and white ones for children -- were arranged in neat rows on the sports facility's wooden floor in the city of Crotone. Atop each coffin was a bouquet of flowers. Some people added stuffed animals, another a toy truck, on the coffins of children. Mourning also took place thousands of kilometers from the site of the shipwreck. In Pakistan, people were mourning the death of the country's woman field hockey player Shahida Raza in the tragedy. Raza was from Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province.
Viewing the coffins along with victims' families were the mayors of nearby Italian towns, the local bishop and imam, and townspeople.
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