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The death toll from a boat capsizing off the city of Crotone in Calabria, southern Italy, has risen to 40 today.
The Italian relief teams stated in a tweet reported by Agence France-Presse that 28 bodies were recovered, while sea currents swept three other bodies away from the boat, which was carrying, according to Italian media, 150 to 250 people, explaining that they were able to rescue about forty people after the boat crashed and hit rocks. In the midst of high waves.
A previous toll indicated that 30 migrants were killed after their boat capsized and sank off the eastern coast of Calabria, southern Italy, today.
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