The bodies of hundreds of migrants have been recovered from the hull of a boat that sank in the Mediterranean last year.
Some 500 people drowned in April 2015 during one of the worst known disasters involving people trying to reach Europe by sea.
The vessel sank about 85 miles north of Libya, from where it departed.
Italian authorities raised it from the seabed last week and it was taken to a naval site in the Port of Augusta in southeastern Sicily.
When it arrived, a navy official said he thought around 300 bodies were still in the hold, which added to 169 recovered from the nearby seabed.
A team of 150 professionals and volunteers from the navy, fire service, Italian Red Cross and a forensic team of Milan university professors have been working to remove bodies and examine them.
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