Migrant boat disaster - in pictures

Tuesday 21 April 2015 05:55 EDT

The body of a dead child is recovered off the coast of Rhodes. People smuggling is an industry where demand exceeds supply and the seller does not care greatly if the customer reaches their destination or not (AP)

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A picture of a young boy who drowned off of the coast of the Greek island of Rhodes has come to represent the tragedy in the Mediterranean sea.

He was one of three migrants who died after a boat carrying dozens of people ran aground.

On the other side of the sea, a survivor of the disaster has said there were as many as 950 people aboard the boat that capsized — most are suspected to have died.

So far 28 survivors have been rescued following the tragedy near the Italian island of Lampedusa, and many of them have offered different accounts as to how many others were on board.