"The female survivor said: "We were 300, but around 100, especially women, did not survive, and the men were forced to throw their bodies into the sea."
The Moroccan woman's claim contradicted information provided earlier by Italian coast guard spokesman Vittorio Alessandro, who said 300 badly dehydrated refugees were rescued from the boat after it was discovered 90 nautical miles 104 miles south of Lampedusa.
But Antonio Morana, the commander of the Lampedusa port, said rescue speedboats sent out to assist the refugees "saw clothes floating in the sea in the area where they were operating and maybe also corpses."
Morana said rescue workers were not able to check whether there were in fact bodies floating in the water.
"We had to leave to quickly transport the 300 migrants that were in a precarious state of health," he said, adding that darkness made it equally difficult to scan the water for bodies"...........READ MORE
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