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These are the first pictures to emerge of the migrant boat that sank off of the Italian island of Lampedusa killing more than 300 people.
Italy's fire service has released video footage of divers reaching the wreckage of a boat which sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, 40 metres beneath the waves.
The diving team have said they expect to find the bodies of over 100 of the 250 people still missing following the tragedy.
The Tunisian captain accused of trafficking hundreds of migrants, who drowned when their boat sank off the coast of Sicily, had already been deported from Italy once, a senior government minister has revealed.
The boat claimed 111 lives when it caught fire and capsized, half a mile off the coast of Lampedusa, the southernmost tip of the EU. Another 155 people have been rescued while 250 are still unaccounted for.
As dramatic pictures were released of passengers being hauled from the water, it emerged that one of the survivors was arrested yesterday having been identified as one of the traffickers.
Deputy Prime Minister Angelino Alfano said: ‘The trafficker arrested is a 35-year-old Tunisian who had been expelled from Italy in April and repatriated, But he’s returned to human-trafficking with these results.
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