Sunk migrant boat lifted from the sea bed off Egypt
ROSETTA- The death toll from a Europe-bound boat that sank in the Mediterranean while carrying hundreds of migrants rose to 178 on Tuesday after the boat was lifted from the bottom of the sea by a crane vessel.
Officials said the death toll was likely to rise significantly as they retrieve bodies from the bottom of the boat, where many of the migrants are believed to have been trapped and drowned.
An Associated Press reporter saw dozens of families and friends whose loved ones were missing waiting anxiously near the port in the coastal town of Rosetta, wanting to take the bodies for burial. Some screamed in grief at the sight of the latest bodies being returned to shore aboard an inflatable boat.
