(28 Feb 2023)
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Steccato di Cutro (Crotone province), Italy - 28 February 2023
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1. Tracking shot of Italian coast guard truck carrying remains
HEADLINE: DOZENS DEAD IN MIGRANT BOAT SHIPWRECK OFF ITALY
2. Various of coast guard personnel unloading a bodybag and placing it under a makeshift tent
LOCATION: Steccato di Cutro, Italy
ANNOTATION: Rescuers have recovered over 60 bodies after a wooden boat carrying migrants crashed into rocky reefs off the coast of Italy Sunday.
ANNOTATION: Dozens more people are believed to be missing.
3. Group of firefighters’ rescue divers talking
ANNOTATION: Officials fear the death toll could top 100 since some survivors said the boat had as many as 200 passengers when it set sail from Turkey.
4. Close of waves, water on shoreline
ANNOTATION: At least 80 people were found alive, including some who reached the shore after the shipwreck just off Calabria’s coastline along the Ionian Sea.
5. Firefighters, divers walking on the beach
6. Tilt up of boat debris on the beach
7. Close of child's shoe on the beach among the remains of the boat
ANNOTATION: One man was taken into custody for questioning after fellow survivors indicated he was a trafficker, according to Italian state television.
8. Life vest on the beach by the sea
STORYLINE:
A wooden boat crowded with migrants smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart before dawn Sunday off the Italian coast, authorities said.
Rescuers recovered over 60 bodies, and dozens more people were missing in the rough waters.
Officials feared the death toll could top 100 since some survivors indicated the boat had as many as 200 passengers when it set out from Turkey, United Nations refugee and migration agencies said.
At least 80 people were found alive, including some who reached the shore after the shipwreck just off Calabria’s coastline along the Ionian Sea, the Italian Coast Guard said. One of the agency’s motorboats rescued two men suffering from hypothermia and recovered the body of a boy.
One man was taken into custody for questioning after fellow survivors indicated he was a trafficker, state TV said.
The boat collided with the reefs in wind-whipped seas. Three big chunks of the vessel ended up on the beach near the town of Steccato di Cutro, where splintered pieces of bright blue wood littered the sand like matchsticks.
Rescuers said two men who survived were spotted trying to save children by holding them over their heads as waves buffeted them. But the children died, state TV said.
According to Italian state TV, survivors indicated that the boat set out five days ago from Turkey.
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