Italy navy recovers sunken migrant boat

The Italian navy says it has recovered the migrant ship that sank off Sicily last year with an estimated 700 people on board in one of the worst known tragedies of the Mediterranean migrant crisis.

The navy said in a statement on Wednesday that it had raised the boat towards the surface from a depth of 370 metres.
The wreck is being kept in a refrigerated transport structure for the trip back to land, where forensic experts will begin trying to identify the victims.