Sentence examples for worst shipwreck from inspiring English sources

Jimi Petros survived perhaps the most worst shipwreck of them all, the night in October last year when 366 migrants died off Lampedusa, the tiny Mediterranean island that has become a miserable byword for transitory migrants.

ROME — More than 250 people, including women and children, were missing on Wednesday after their boat capsized off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa in the worst shipwreck since thousands of migrants began traveling to Italy because of the unrest in North Africa.

It was the worst shipwreck to take place in recent years: Only 11 of the 450 passengers are known to have survived.

Francesco Schettino and eight others remains in the hands of Italian courts, which will decide in the spring whether they will be tried on criminal charges for their role in the disaster, the worst shipwreck in modern history.

"If survivors' reports are confirmed, this will be the worst shipwreck of migrants in years, not an accidental tragedy, but the apparent deliberate drowning of migrants by criminal gangs who extort money for their desperate journeys," IOM spokesperson Leonard Doyle said.

A DAY of national mourning was held on October 4th after as many as 300 people drowned in the Mediterranean's worst recent shipwreck, just off Lampedusa.

When more than 800 people drowned last month in the Mediterranean's worst modern shipwreck, Ibrahim Mbalo almost joined the dead at the bottom of the sea.

Numbers risking the journey in search of a better life have continued to rise two weeks after as many as 900 people drowned in the worst Mediterranean shipwreck in living memory.

Italians are aghast at the scale of the tragedy that unfolded on Thursday, Italy's worst ever migrant shipwreck, the BBC's Alan Johnston says.

We were now travelling through extensive fields of marijuana plants 10 feet tall - not the worst place to be shipwrecked, I thought.

The Italian navy launched the Mare Nostrum operation in October 2013 after 366 people died in a shipwreck off Lampedusa, in one of the worst migrant boat disasters.