26 kids among migrant boat missing - survivors

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 17 - Survivors of a migrant shipwreck 2100 miles off the Calabrian coast Monday said some 26 children were among the 50-60 missing from the disaster.
    "I spoke to a young man who lost his girlfriend. Survivors spoke of 66 people missing, including at least 26 children, some only a few months old," said Shakilla Mohammadi, an intercultural mediator for Doctors without Borders, present in Roccella Ionica where the survivors of the shipwreck in the Ionian Sea landed.
    "Entire families from Afghanistan are said to be dead. They left Turkey eight days ago and had been taking on water for three or four days. They told us that they were travelling without life jackets and that some boats did not stop to help them.
    "The scene," she added, "was heartbreaking, in front of us traumatised people, the pain was palpable. (ANSA).