ROME—Italian authorities have found the bodies of five more victims of a shipwreck last month off the coast of Calabria, bringing to 86 the death toll from one of the worst migration disasters in recent European history.
The tragedy was followed by another shipwreck on Sunday in which 30 people are missing and feared dead.
A boy aged around seven or eight, a three-year-old girl, two men, and a woman were the latest confirmed victims of the night-time shipwreck near the seaside town of Steccato di Cutro, a provincial government official said on Wednesday.
They were on the wooden boat that had set off from Izmir, Turkey, and crashed near the shore of Calabria in Italy’s southern toe with about 180 people aboard on Feb.26, according to an account to parliament by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi….