Malta holds funerals for 24 victims of migrant shipwreck

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Valletta, Rajab 04, 1436, April 23, 2015, SPA -- Funerals were celebrated in Malta on Thursday for 24 migrants who died in a shipwreck at the weekend, which is believed to have killed more than 800 people in total, in the worst such accident of modern times, dpa reported. Dozens of weeping migrants were present, along with Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos, Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano and Greek Solidarity Minister Theano Fotio were also present. --SPA 14:40 LOCAL TIME 11:40 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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