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'They died like rats in cages': Horror of migrants' final moments as it emerges 300 were locked in Europe-bound ship's hold as it capsized – leaving up to 900 dead



Hundreds of terrified migrants including women and children drowned 'like rats in a cage' on a smuggler boat because they were locked in the hold when it capsized, a survivor revealed today.

More than 900 people are feared dead after the fishing boat overturned in the Mediterranean in one of the worst maritime disasters since the end of World War Two.

A Italian coast guard ship today brought the bodies of 24 victims to Malta for burial before heading to Sicily with only 28 survivors who were plucked from the sea after the disaster off Libya.

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