Bad weather hampers search in Italian ship disaster

The search to recover bodies from a fishing boat that sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa has been called off for a second day because of bad weather.

Bad weather hampers search in Italian ship disaster

The search to recover bodies from a fishing boat that sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa has been called off for a second day because of bad weather.

Police spokesman Leonardo Ricci said that choppy seas are preventing divers from reaching the wreck, now resting on the seabed. More than 200 people are still missing.

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