When the fires were finally extinguished, an estimated 25,000 people had died and the baroque city center had been reduced to rubble. A few months later, the war in Europe ended. Under Soviet occupation, the survivors began the daunting task of cleaning and rebuilding their city. ...
That covers the number rescued by Italian coastguards or European naval patrols after being abandoned in the Mediterranean by people smugglers, it is not known how many made it to European land and simply disappeared or how many died making the crossing. Police in Palermo, Sicily, announced ...