The migrants\u0027 wooden boat, crammed with passengers who paid human traffickers for the voyage from Turkey, broke apart in rough water
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Eighty people survived the shipwreck. According to survivor accounts, the boat had held 170 or more passengers when it set out from the Turkish port of Izmir a few days earlier. White coffins containing children who died in a migrant shipwreck, lie in state at Palasport in Crotone, Italy, February 28, 2023. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
When the relatives heard about the shipwreck, many drove from Germany, northern Italy and other European points down to Cutro, the beach town where many of the corpses washed up and some of the survivors came ashore.
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