Authorities recovered the bodies of 20 more victims from the October 3 shipwreck off the coast of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, raising the death toll from the accident to 359, dpa reported.
Each year thousands of people from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere try to reach Europe via Italy and Malta, in search of a better life. Many of them end up in Lampedusa, which is roughly halfway between Sicily and Tunisia.