In these hours, the Crotone sports hall hosts the coffins of the victims of the shipwreck on Sunday morning off the coast of Cutro . The funeral home will be open tomorrow morning at 9.

The toll of the massacre, as reported by the Relief Coordination Center opened in the Prefecture of Crotone, currently stands at 64 victims, 23 of whom have been identified (22 Afghans and 1 Syrian).

According to Frontex, there were two hundred people on that boat : 14 minors died and the same number survived.

Among them 5 are hospitalized, 6 are at the Cara di Isola Capo Rizzuto, one, who said he was 17 years old , was arrested as an alleged smuggler, and two unaccompanied taken to suitable structures. In the meantime, the searches continue, conducted with two lookouts still at sea . Two helicopters also operated this morning, one from the Port Authority and one from the State Police.

There are 15 hospitalized patients.

According to what was reported by investigators and investigators, it was precisely the stretch of sea where the tragedy occurred that was the target of the smugglers who were driving the boat which broke in two at dawn, a few tens of meters from the shore after hitting a dry.

They wanted to arrive at night to beach the boat and allow the migrants to get off and away from the beach . A method used dozens of times by human traffickers for landings on the Ionian coast of Calabria.

(Unioneonline/D)

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