Work continues to recover bodies from sunken migrant boat

The Italian Fire Brigade released a video showing their work in recovering bodies from a migrant boat that sank off Libya in April 2015, killing up to 500 people.

The vessel was brought to the Sicilian port of Augusta on Friday after being raised from the seabed and transported by a tug boat. Emergency workers undertook structural inspections, working through the night, and began removing the remains to a refrigerated structure in the port where experts will examine and try to identify the victims.

The navy previously recovered 118 bodies, but 250-300 hundred corpses are believed to be trapped below deck, where the 28 survivors said migrants including many women and children were locked.