Up to nine hundred people are now feared to have drowned after a fishing boat smuggling migrants capsized in the Mediterranean.<br /><br /> One Bangladeshi survivor said in Catania over six hundred and fifty people were on board when it went down.. <br /><br /> It’s estimated about forty to fifty children and around two hundred women were trapped behind closed doors inside the boat and were unable to escape.<br /><br /> The ship went down about one hundred kilometres off the coast of Libya and around two hundred kilometres south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. <br /><br /> It’s thought to be the worst ever tragedy involving the transportation of migrants to Europe. Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is leading calls for greater EU action on the issue. <br /><br /> He said:<br /><br /> “Our priority, which is a Political priority with a capital ‘P’, is human dignity, as well as national security, to stop the trafficking of human beings. These new slave drivers cannot think that Europe considers this a second rate problem compared to other
