Italy in bid to identify drowned refugees after 2015 capsize

Al Jazeera English 2016-04-18

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It's a year since 800 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean, trying to reach Europe.

Now, attempts are finally being made to try to identify the dead. Expert teams will try to lift the shipwreck from the seabed.

Laurence Lee reports from Sicily.
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