The bodies of 14 migrants have been brought to shore in Sicily, unloaded from an Irish Navy ship which rescued nearly 500 others seeking a better life, from an overcrowded boat off the coast of Libya.<br /><br /> A simple religious ceremony was held at the port of Messina to honour the anonymous victims.<br /><br /> “Death hit many people,” said Chiara Montaldo, Sicily Projects Coordinator for the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres.<br /><br /> “It was caused by an inhuman journey, as normally happens…The dead were in the hold. This time they didn’t drown. They probably died from asphyxiation or from thirst or the heat.”<br /><br /> "No pictures can explain this smell of death or the lost gazes of the survivors." Chiara from @MSF_SICILY in #Messina pic.twitter.com/onmgHlMgsy— MSF Sea (@MSF_Sea) 29 Juillet 2015<br /> <br /><br /> The migrants rescued by the Irish ship, mostly of Syrian origin, were taken to Messina. <br /><br /> Separately, nearly 700 other migrants were taken to the Sicilian port of Reggio Calabria by a Medecins Sans Frontieres ve