50 bodies found aboard rescued migrant boat

Around 50 bodies have been found in the hold of a boat carrying hundreds of migrants off the Libyan coast.

More than 400 people were rescued by a Swedish vessel but the incident is of 10 emergency signals sent by boats in distress and picked up by the Italian coastguard on Wednesday alone.

Our Europe correspondent Sandra Gathmann reports.

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