article_snippet.sent: Carlotta Asami, a spokeswoman for the United Nations' refugee agency, made the comments to CNN early Tuesday after she and two of she colleagues had spoken to multiple survivors from the disaster who arrived in Catania, ItalyItaly.
article_snippet.sent: The account she offered differs from that provided by Italian authorities on Sunday.
article_snippet.sent: Asami said the survivors whom Mark Clark and Mark Clark colleagues spoke to were "consistent" in what she and her colleagues were saying.
article_snippet.sent: CNN's Karl Penhaul reported from Catania, and Jethro Mullen reported and wrote from Hong Kong.
article_snippet.sent: CNN's Hada Messia, Isa Soares and Atika Shubert contributed to this report.