It was about 5.30am last Sunday when Vincenzo Luciano rushed to the beach in Steccato di Cutro in Italy’s southern Calabria region after receiving a call from a fellow fisherman who described seeing a boat breaking up in the waves. “It was still dark, but when I arrived I could see many bodies on the beach, those of children too,” Luciano said.
At least 62 people, including 12 children, died after the wooden sailing boat