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Created in the mediterranean sea and european policies are responsible that group believes that european borders should be more open to people displaced by war or international crisis and forced to make a risky escape. the pope also spoke about it today and on the phone joining me from sicily cnn senior international correspondent ben weedman. ben, i know they are still trying to recover nip who may have lived through this. what do we know about the casualty figures and how the rescue and recovery is going at this point? reporter: we understand the casualty figures are pretty firm. basically, they have managed to get 28 survivors, fished them out of the sea. another 24 bodies have been recovered. but at this point, almost 24 hours since that first sos went out from this very unsea worthy boat. the chances of survivors diminishing by the hour. what is interesting, we just received a statement from the ....

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