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Footage from the Italian coastguard shows survivors of the disaster being pulled to safety on Thursday
Divers off southern Italy have been searching the wreck of a boat which sank on Thursday drowning more than 300 African migrants.
The fishing vessel foundered less than 1km (half a mile) from the island of Lampedusa after it caught fire.
At least 111 bodies have now been recovered and some 200 of those on board the 20m (66ft) boat are still unaccounted for.
Dozens of bodies are thought to remain in the sunken vessel.
There had been about 500 passengers on board - most from Eritrea and Somalia, according to the UN. Rescuers saved 155.
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Gavin Hewitt reports from Lampedusa on Friday morning, where locals are calling for action
The diving operation had to be temporarily suspended due to choppy seas, Italian media reports say.
The arguments have begun over how to stop this tragic loss of life.
An estimated 25,000 have lost their lives in the past 20 years.
Some officials are saying that if you close borders then you give more power to the traffickers. Others point out that there are 26 million out of work in the EU and that Europe is reluctant to accommodate more migrants.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that there needed to be "more channels for safe and orderly migration". It might help but it remains likely that thousands will still try and migrate to Europe.
EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem vowed to "fight smugglers exploiting human despair".
None of this is easy but officials are saying that the migrants have become a "European tragedy".
Officials are quoted as saying some 100 bodies could remain in the wreck, which lies some 40m below the surface.
Half of the bodies so far recovered are said to be women and four are children.
A minute of silence was being observed in all Italian schools on Friday in memory of the victims and flags are at half-mast. A special mass is being held on Friday evening in the church in Lampedusa.
The skipper of the boat, a 35-year-old Tunisian, was arrested, announced Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano when he visited the island on Thursday.
Illegal migration numbers
- Since 1988, at least 19,142 people died trying to reach Europe's borders - 2,352 in 2011 alone
- 6,707 have died off Sicily in the past 10 years
- Of those who arrived in Italy in 2011, 571,000 continued on to Germany, 210,000 to France, 194,000 to the UK, 87,000 to Sweden, 75,000 to the Netherlands, and 58,000 stayed in Italy
Source: Fortress Europe
"He had been deported from Italy in April," Mr Alfano said.
"This is not an Italian tragedy, this is a European tragedy," he continued. "Lampedusa has to be considered the frontier of Europe, not the frontier of Italy."
'Immense tragedy'The ship appears to have set sail from Misrata in Libya and began taking on water when its motor stopped working as it neared Lampedusa early on Thursday morning.
It is thought that some of those on board set fire to a piece of material to try to attract the attention of passing ships, only to have the fire spread to the rest of the boat.
The boat is thought to have capsized when everyone moved to one side.
It is one of the worst such disasters to occur off the Italian coast in recent years; Prime Minister Enrico Letta tweeted that it was "an immense tragedy".
In a separate incident on Thursday, local media reported that around 200 migrants were escorted to the port of Syracuse on the island of Sicily, when their vessel encountered difficulties five miles off the coast.
Earlier this week, 13 migrants drowned while trying to reach Sicily.
'Continuous horror'Footage from Lampedusa showed bodies being laid out on the dockside.
The mayor, Giusi Nicolini, described the scene as a "continuous horror", while a local doctor said the hardest part to deal with was seeeing the bodies of children.
An Eritrean woman who had initially been placed among the bodies on the shore was later found to be breathing and was taken to hospital in Sicily. But there is little hope of finding anyone else alive.
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The search was widened during Thursday beyond the initial radius of four nautical miles from Lampedusa in an effort to recover bodies that had been swept away by tides
Bodies were later taken to a hangar at the island's airport, because there was no more room at the morgue.
A ferry arrived at the island carrying dozens of coffins and several hearses.
Pope Francis, visiting Assisi, described Friday as "a day of tears" for the victims.
In July he visited the Lampedusa and condemned the "global indifference" to the plight of migrants trying to arrive there.
Rising numbersWhy people flee Eritrea and Somalia
Eritrea:
- UN says 3,000 people try to flee each month
- Human rights groups say the country is becoming a giant jail, with some 10,000 political prisoners
- Young people conscripted to army - sometimes until age of 40
Somalia:
- Much of the country controlled by al-Shabab Islamist militants
- Country ravaged by two decades of war
In a statement, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres commended the swift action taken by the Italian coast guard to save lives.
Mr Guterres also expressed "dismay at the rising global phenomenon of migrants and people fleeing conflict or persecution and perishing at sea".
The UN said that in recent months most migrants attempting the crossing were fleeing the conflicts in Syria and the Horn of Africa, rather than coming from sub-Saharan Africa.
The number of those arriving by sea to Italy this year until 30 September stood at 30,100, according to the UN.
The main nationalities of those arriving were Syrian (7,500), Eritrean (7,500) and Somali (3,000).
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