The incident during the storm killed at least 65 people.
On Tuesday, February 28, Italian police arrested three people believed to be involved in the fatal shipwreck. A fourth suspect is currently being sought.
It is reported by Reuters.
A boat with hundreds of migrants on Sunday, February 26, crashed on rocks in the south of the country during a storm. At least 65 people were killed, according to official figures. Rescuers said that most of the migrants came from Afghanistan, and there were also citizens of Pakistan, Iran, Somalia and Syria on board.
The Taliban-led Afghan Foreign Ministry said 80 Afghan citizens were killed in the shipwreck. There are also children among them. Relatives of the victims arrived in the city of Crotone to find their loved ones.
Earlier we reported that a truck with 18 dead migrants was found in Bulgaria. More than fifty people were stuffed into the car, “like in a tin can”, they were dying due to lack of oxygen, law enforcement officers said.
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