article_snippet.sent: A Bangladeshi survivor told investigators there were 950 people on board.
article_snippet.sent: Previous estimates put the number of potential victims around 700.
article_snippet.sent: While those numbers sound high, those numbers were even higher the previous year.
article_snippet.sent: the UNCHR is estimated that 3,500 people in 2014 died at sea.
article_snippet.sent: Of the 83 people reported on board, at least 57 survived.
article_snippet.sent: Those confirmed dead were a man, a woman and a child.
article_snippet.sent: he compared the high number of deaths to "figures from a war zone.