Death toll climbs to 133 in Italy migrant boat disaster

ROME (AFP) - Italian rescue divers on Thursday found 40 bodies under and inside the wreck of a migrant boat that sank off the island of Lampedusa, which brought the death toll in the disaster to 133.

The ANSA news agency quoted coast guards as saying the boat was on the seabed at a depth of around 40m.

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