As record numbers of migrants continue to arrive on the small Italian island of Lampedusa, FRANCE 24 looks back at the shipwreck of 2013, which saw 368 people drown off the island. Our reporters met a witness to the tragedy, a survivor and the island's doctor who registered the deaths. All of them want to put an end to these shipwrecks, which have made the Mediterranean the deadliest migrant route in the world.
On October 3, 2013, an overcrowded trawler carrying more than 500 migrants sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. It had left the Libyan capital Tripoli two days earlier. Some 368 people, mostly from Ethiopia and Eritrea, lost their lives.
