The first bodies have been brought ashore of the hundreds feared killed on Sunday in the deadliest shipwreck involving migrants trying to reach Europe.<br /><br /> In the Maltese capital Valletta, coast-guard officers unloaded 24 corpses found so far. <br /><br /> Wearing white protective suits, they carried the victims in body-bags off the Italian ship Gregoretti and deposited them in hearses.<br /><br /> At the same time, the port of Catania in Sicily was preparing to receive the migrants who escaped with their lives.<br /><br /> Just 28 people were rescued. Some 700, perhaps 900, others seeking a better life in Europe are thought to have drowned when their boat capsized off Libya. <br /><br /> “Over the past week, 1,000 people have died in the Mediterranean,” said aid worker Sarah Tyler of Save the Children.<br /><br /> “This is almost as many that have died in the Titanic and 31 times more than perished in the Costa Concordia. This is a tragedy that did not have to happen if the EU had reinstated its search and rescue mission.”<br /><br /> Ex-migrant
