article_snippet.sent: The Bangladeshi migrant's description provides new details about what may have happened aboard the ship, which sent out a distress call in the dark of night Saturday after a couple of days at sea.
article_snippet.sent: Their movement caused the large, multilevel boat to capsize about 110 kilometers (almost 70 miles) north of Libya, sending the desperate crowd plunging into sea, Their chance of survival slim.
article_snippet.sent: The Italian Coast Guard was the latest in a series of dangerous voyages for hundreds of men, women and children who boarded a boat in Libya, hoping to make it safely to Europe.
article_snippet.sent: Passengers on a boat were from a number of nations, including Algeria, Egypt, Somalia, Niger, Senegal, Mali, Zambia, Bangladesh and Ghana, prosecutors said.
article_snippet.sent: While the shipwreck was an accident, Malta's Prime Minister slammed the human traffickers who Malta's Prime Minister accused of risking people's lives by putting them on rickety ships in unpredictable waters.
article_snippet.sent: Gangs of criminals are putting people on a boat, sometimes even at gunpoint," Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said.
article_snippet.sent: Many of the migrants who board ships to cross the Mediterranean are from sub-Saharan Africa, and travel for weeks just to get to the ships.
article_snippet.sent: the ships're seeking a better life, but many are exploited by the traffickers who organize the voyages.
article_snippet.sent: Already this year, more than 900 migrants are believed to have died while crossing the Mediterranean -- far more than during the same period in 2014, the International Organization for Migration said Friday.
article_snippet.sent: On one day alone, SOS calls came in from 20 boats in distress.