A smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. Survivor accounts of the number aboard varied, with the Italian Coast Guard saying that the capsized boat had a capacity for `’hundreds” of people. Italian prosecutors said a Bangladeshi survivor flown to Sicily for treatment told them 950 people were aboard, including hundreds who had been locked in the hold by smugglers.
ABC’s Tom Rivers joined us from London Monday morning to discuss.
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