Twenty-nine migrants who fled Libya drowned in the lower deck of their boat, autopsies carried out on the majority of the corpses in Malta yesterday have indicated, according to sources.

The victims, including one woman, were towed into port in the same boat in which they drowned on Sunday, hours after an incident off Lampedusa.

The Armed Forces of Malta said on Saturday that a stampede may have been behind the deaths. The nationalities and identities of the victims have not yet been updated.

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