article_snippet.sent: The vast majority of A police handout showing Mohammed Ali Malek (left) and Mahmud Bikhit (right) after their arrest in Malta were locked in the hold or the middle deck of the 20-metre (66-foot) boat when the 20-metre (66-foot) boat capsized following a collision with a Portuguese cargo ship responding to the 20-metre (66-foot) boat distress signal.
article_snippet.sent: Only 28, including two crew members who have been arrested, survived and 24 bodies have been recovered.
article_snippet.sent: Survivors have described the moment the doomed ship sank, telling how how Survivors clung to dead bodies in the pitch black sea in order to stay afloat.
article_snippet.sent: Survivors also accused the captain of being drunk moments before he rammed another ship, causing the tragedy.
article_snippet.sent: Bangladeshi Riajul Islam, 17, said the only reason he survived was because he was on the top deck and knew how to swim.
article_snippet.sent: Nasir Khan, a fellow 17-year-old Bangladeshi, said he was also on the top deck and lived by clinging on to a life vest.
article_snippet.sent: a distress signal later capsized.