Valletta - Malta on Thursday honoured the memory of the estimated 800 people who perished in the Mediterranean's worst migrant disaster with a poignant inter-faith funeral service for 24 of them.
The bodies of the unidentified victims, 20 men and four male teenagers, were taken to Malta after being recovered along with 28 survivors from the waters off Libya where the boat capsized in the early hours of Sunday.
Their wooden coffins were laid out on a red carpet inside a tent erected for the service outside the morgue at the Mater Dei hospital.
The 45-minute inter-faith service was led by the Bishop of Gozo, Mario Grech, and Imam Mohammed El Sadi.
At its conclusion, the coffins were carried away by Maltese soldiers for private burials.
AFP
