Coast Guard recovers 3 bodies from Ionian Sea shipwreck

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 18 - Italian Coast Guard ship Dattilo on Tuesday recovered three bodies in the area of Monday's shipwreck about a hundred kilometres off the Calabrian coast of a sailing boat that had set sail eight days earlier from Turkey and which left some 60 people missing including 26 children according to survivors.
    It was the second worst recent migrant disaster in Italy after the February 2023 shipwreck at Cutro in Calabria in which at least 94 migrants including 35 children died.
    In addition to the ship, two Coast Guard patrol boats have been patrolling the area in search of the missing.
    The hull of the half-sunken but still afloat sailing ship has also been inspected, but nothing has been found. The search continues.
    The disaster occurred just inside the Italian search and rescue (SAR) zone. (ANSA).