Day of mourning as over 300 migrants feared dead

Italian rescue workers have found 111 bodies after a migrant boat sank off the island of Lampedusa yesterday.

More than 300 people are believed to have died in one of the worst tragedies in Europe's decades-long migrant crisis.

Italy is holding a day of mourning today, and schools will observe a minute's silence in memory of the victims.

Rescue workers expect to recover more than a hundred bodies from the submerged wreck, a coastguard official said this morning.

Authorities have rescued 155 survivors after the 20m boat carrying around 500 migrants, mostly Eritreans and Somalis, sank no more than 1km from shore.

The disaster was triggered when fuel aboard caught fire, causing a panicked rush to one side of the boat, which capsized and sank.

"Two motorboats remained in the area overnight and this morning divers resumed work but we expect to recover more than a hundred bodies from the ship," coast guard official Floriana Segreto said.

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