By Sandalie Gamage
A shipwreck that happened in the Mediterranean left as many as 500 people dead. The wreck was one of the worst immigrant involved tragedies, which is following many recent tragic events happening all over the world.
Out of the many people on the boat, there were only 41 survivors- 37 men, 3 women, and a little 3 year old kid. The boat was driven by smugglers who tried to transfer the passengers onto an already crowded boat. As the transfers was happening, the larger boat capsized and it sank.
The people that had not boarded the boat yet and some who had managed to to swim back to the boat survived. They drifted out at sea for as many as three days before rescuers came to help them.
The survivors were taken to a local stadium to wait while local authorities questioned them about the whole incident.
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