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Survivors of Sunday's sinking off Libya arrived in the Sicilian port of Catania late on Monday |
The
Tunisian captain of a boat that capsized off Libya on Sunday, killing hundreds
of migrants, has been charged with reckless multiple homicide, Italian
officials say.
He
has also been charged along with a Syrian member of the crew with favouring
illegal immigration.
The
two were among 27 survivors who arrived in Sicily late on Monday.
The
authorities say the disaster was caused by mistakes made by the captain and the
ship being overcrowded.
Prosecutors
in the Sicilian port of Catania said the boat had collided with a Portuguese
container ship just before it capsized, but absolved the merchant vessel's crew
of any responsibility.
They said the boat had
keeled over after the collision which had been caused by steering mistakes by
the captain and the panicked movements of the migrants on the 20-metre (66ft)
former fishing trawler.
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