Migrant boat disaster: Survivor says there were 950 people aboard — but the true figure may never

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Source: The Independent

be known.
There may have been as many as 950 people on board the boat that capsized in the Mediterranean sea on Saturday night — feared to be the most deadly disaster ever of its kind.

So far 28 survivors have been rescued, and many of them have offered different accounts as to how many others were on board.



One of the rescued, a 32-year old man from Bangladesh, told Italian prosecutors there were 950, a number far larger than the 700 figure widely reported.

The man said about 300 people had been locked in the hold by smugglers when the boat set out. He said that aboard the vessel were 200 women and several dozen children.


Smugglers reportedly locked 300 people in the hold

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