Italy retrieves 60 bodies from April disaster

Two Italian navy ships have ferried to shore 60 bodies of migrants from the April shipwreck in which as many as 800 perished.

The navy says the corpses, transported Monday to Sicily, bring to 118 the number of bodies recovered using navy divers and robots.

Prosecutors who viewed film taken by divers of the boat's interior say the images support testimony from the few survivors that some 800 people were aboard when the vessel capsized as rescuers approached, with hundreds trapped in the hold.

The body retrieval operation is in its third month.

Meanwhile, Italy's coast guard was searching the waters between Libya and Sicily after 107 survivors rescued from an overcrowded dinghy told authorities some 20 persons fell overboard and their smugglers wouldn't stop to pick them up.