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ROME
More than 30 migrants, mostly toddlers, drowned on Wednesday when about 200 people without life jackets fell from a boat into the sea off the Libyan coast before they could be hauled into waiting rescue boats.
The boat was near a rescue vessel when it suddenly listed and many migrants tumbled into the Mediterranean, Italian Coast Guard commander Cosimo Nicastro told Reuters."At least 20 dead bodies were spotted in the water," he said.
The rescue group MOAS said it had already recovered more than 30 bodies."Most are toddlers," the group's co-founder Chris Catrambone said on Twitter.
