Malta to bury 24 victims of latest shipwreck tragedy - in pictures

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  Rescuers help children to disembark in the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast on Saturday 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. Alessandra Tarantino / AP

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  Migrants arrive on a boat at the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo on Monday. Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters

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  About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast on Saturday 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. Alessandra Tarantino / AP

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  The Maltese army says an Italian coast guard ship has brought the bodies of 24 victims of what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest migrant tragedy to Malta. Alessandra Tarantino / AP

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  Migrants arrive on the boat at the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo on Sunday. Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters

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  Italian coastguard personnel in protective clothing stand on the deck of their ship ‘Bruno Gregoretti’, carrying dead immigrants on board, as it arrives in Senglea, in Valletta’s Grand Harbour. Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters

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  The coast guard ship Gregoretti dropped off the bodies early Monday and was continuing on to Sicily with 28 survivors of this weekend’s shipwreck near the Libyan coast that may have claimed as many as 900 lives. Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters

An Italian coast guard ship headed toward Sicily Monday with 28 survivors of what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest migrant tragedy, as EU foreign ministers gathered for an emergency meeting on the growing crisis as migrants flee instability in Libya at unprecedented rates.

* Associated Press