700 migrants feared dead in deadliest Mediterranean ship capsize

700 migrants are feared dead after their packed 20-meter fishing boat capsized off Libya
today April 19th. Reports say the migrants, whose boat was 70 miles (126
km) off the Libyan coast and 110 miles (177 km) south of the Italian
island of Lampedusa, issued a distress call to Italy's coastguard who immediately instructed a nearby merchant ship to go to its aid and it was
when the merchant