The Italian authorities have issued a video showing the moment a migrants' dinghy capsized, throwing many of its occupants into the water. Five of the migrants died. Three bodies were recovered but another two were carried by the current.

The incident happened as the migrants were about to board the tanker Norient Star.

Yesterday the tanker's captain blamed an AFM patrol boat for having abandoned the rescue.

But the AFM explained how the patrol boat crew handed life vests to the migrants and then handed over the rescue to the tanker because they were urgently needed to rescue 128 persons from a sinking dinghy.

 

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