Survivors

Italian police: Migrant survivors say 200 died in shipwreck

The five suspected smugglers — Libyan and Algerian men — were detained a day earlier in Palermo as they disembarked, along with 362 survivors, from an Irish naval vessel that helped in Wednesday's rescue, police said. Six other migrants who survived were helicoptered from sea to the hospital. Twenty-six bodies have been recovered.

Sea disaster survivors tell of ordeal

Felicitas Kurangik and Nicholas Hakata told of their bravery against Mother Nature’s gruesome nightmare on them.

 Felicitas Kurangik is a teacher and has a one year old baby, while Nicholas Hakata is the treasurer for Carterets Primary School and is a seafarer by profession having worked for Bismarck Maritime, on board vessel Sea Swallow and on board an international purseiner.

“We took off in the early hours of Saturday morning from Buka, then to Bonus at Kokopau on the other side of the Buka passage, to get Felicitas's baby," he said.