Italy has charged the captain of a boat that sank off Libya on Sunday killing hundreds of migrants with reckless multiple homicide.
The Tunisian captain and another crew member have also been charged with aiding illegal immigration.
The Tunisian captain and another crew member have also been charged with aiding illegal immigration.
This after European Union ministers agreed a ten-point plan to tackle the migrants crisis in the Mediterranean.
EU leaders will discuss the issue further at an emergency summit on Thursday.
Around 1600 migrants are thought to have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe from Libya this year.
Journalist Rosemary Dawkins is in Malta where many of the refugees are arriving and where there is scepticism about EU proposals.
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