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On Wednesday night, a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of Pylos, in the Aegean Sea, on the coast of the Peloponnese;the boat had set sail from Tobruk, Libya and was headed to Italy.There were 79 confirmed victims and hundreds of missing people, but it is not possible to calculate with certainty how many people were on board.The route from North Africa to Italy via the central Mediterranean is the deadliest in the world, according to the United Nations migration agency, which has recorded more than 17,000 deaths and disappearances since 2014. Why people continue to die in the Mediterranean According to the first reconstructions, there were up to 400 people on board, but a network of activists said they had received a distress call from a boat that was in the same area and which, according to passengers, was carrying 750 people.After the first alarm, Frontex aircraft and two merchant ships spotted the vessel heading north at high speed, according to the...