PHOTO: FUNERAL SERVICE FOR 24 VICTIMS OF ONE OF THE DEADLIEST MIGRANT TRAGEDY OFF THE COAST OF LIBYA

A funeral service was held on Thursday, April 23 in Msida, in the outskirts of Valletta, Malta for 24 migrants who drowned while trying to reach the Southern coasts of Italy.
The migrants died when when the smugglers boat they were in that was filled with hundreds of people overturned off the coast of Libya on Saturday as rescuers approached causing one of the deadliest known migrant tragedy.

Photo credit: AP/Alessandra Tarantino