Six victims of a shipwreck in which an estimated 800 fleeing people drowned in the Mediterranean were buried in Italy on Thursday (July 9), nearly three months after their deaths. The bodies were recovered by the Italian navy from the wreck around 380 metres below sea level.

The six wooden coffins were lowered into graves in the community cemetery on the outskirts of Catania, Sicily's second city. Each was marked with a number to identify those buried as victims of the shipwreck on 18 April, when a boat crammed with refugees and migrants sank in the Mediterranean.

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