11 feared dead after immigrant boat capsizes off Malta

Italy’s coast guard recovered the bodies of three illegal immigrants who drowned this morning after their boat capsized off Malta’s coast, officials said, and the Maltese army called off the search for eight others, who were presumed drowned, raising the death toll to 11.

Sixteen illegal migrants were rescued by an Italian fishing trawler, four of whom were in serious condition, said Sili Pigni, a spokesman for the Italian coast guard in Catania, Sicily.