Italy has held a funeral for 13 migrants recovered from the sunken wreckage of a boat which sank in April in the worst shipwreck in the Mediterranean in recent memory.

Leaders from different religions presided over the service in Sicily.

Those laid to rest were the first victims recovered from the site where more than 700 people perished in April.

Other victims found at the time of the sinking were buried in Malta a few days after the incident. 

The Italian navy has been working with remote controlled vehicles to recover more bodies from site, which is 1,200 feet below the surface.

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