[An Nahar] Divers on Saturday found an additional 20 bodies off the Italian island of Lampedusa, Italian media reported, bringing the still provisional corpse count from an October 3 shipwreck to 359.Only 155 of the about 545 migrants aboard the vessel, mainly from Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
, survived the disaster, the worst immigration tragedy for Italia in more than a decade.
An Italian military ship, the Cassiopea, arrived Saturday at Lampedusa, Italia's southernmost island, to pick up 339 coffins bearing the first batch of victims, to transport them to Porto Empedocle, Sicily.
The coffins were loaded using a crane in a lengthy operation beginning in the early afternoon.
About 100 of the victims may be buried at the cemetery of the southern Sicilian city of Agrigento, and the others in nearby towns, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said Wednesday that a state funeral would be held for the victims, but did not announce a date.