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what's the latest carl? >> reporter: yeah in fact just in the last few moments, 27 survivors from that weekend shipwreck arrived here on the dock and they brought with them horrific tales. a spokeswoman for the united nations has just finished talking to us. she talked to the whole group of survivors to try and find out what really happened that night. she said that there are consistent stories now, which gives her confidence that she is getting to the bottom of what really went on. she says that the sailing vessel the fishing boat about 80 feet long set sail on saturday morning around 8:00 a.m. from the coast of libya. by 10:00 p.m. at night, that fishing vessel was in grave trouble and the survivors say that there were 850 people on board. of those, only 28 survived and that effectively makes this the worst disaster involving migrants crossing from northern africa to europe by far. now, that u.n. spokeswoman also
vessel headed for the italian coast. karl penhaul is joining us live from catania in italy right now. what's the latest on the recovery and the investigation? >> the more you look at all this wolf you just see that this is a myigrant crisis escalating with every hour that passes. in terms of the weekend shipwreck as you rightly point out, a syrian and tunisian being accused of captaining that boat and being involved with the smuggling ring they are under investigation by the italian prosecutor and also what the italian prosecutor is looking to do is interview the survivors who were plucked from that ship and to find out a little bit more about exactly how many migrants were on board there, who possibly was behind organizing the people smuggling racket and so that hopefully could help italian authorities to crack down on this in the future. if you look at the panorama
earlier we heard from italy's prime minister. >> translator: this is not just our problem and none can accept -- no one can accept that some people can be locked in a vessel and sold to these criminals and then die. >> our karl penhaul joining us live from italy. what's the latest as far as the victims are concerned, the survivors? what do we know karl? >> well wolf we're expecting in the next couple hours or so 27 survivors from that weekend shipwreck to arrive here in the port of catania. they will be off-loaded and given health and psychological checks and the authorities will want to debrief them to find out what happened. saturday night early into sundays because initial survivor reports suggested that maybe between 7 to -- 700 to 950