He saw a friend in the water, clinging to a plastic bottle.He estimated he saw about 150 people in the "fridge," but his account could not be independently confirmed. He was rescued by fishermen. (Photo: AP) Women broke into screams and some men collapsed whenever they recognized someone, some only by their clothes.The boat was overcrowded with hundreds of people, but the exact number is not known, with estimates from officials ranging from 400 to 600. Some couldn't even hold the rope. "I am not coast guard, I'm a fisherman. They announced that no more bodies were found in the hold, angering relatives of those who still had not been found, many of whom were convinced from earlier reports that more dead were in the hold.

When the boat started to capsize, he said he jumped into the water and swam away from the vessel. But one of his friends pulled him out, meaning he could jump to safety when it began to sink."Only his clothes showed that it's him," she said.He said this was his second attempt to make it to Europe and vowed to try again, citing poverty in Egypt. We need an operation room here to rescue people. Nine of his friends died, he said. There was not an empty centimeter," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of harassment by police.At the pier, emergency officials wore white medical masks against the smell of the bodies. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she feared harassment by police. I kept swimming, searching for land but couldn't find it," he said.Another survivor, Aboud, said he was originally put in the "fridge" when he was brought on the boat. Rosetta: Rescue workers on Tuesday pulled dozens of bodies from the hold of an Egyptian fishing boat that sank in the Mediterranean Sea carrying hundreds of migrants trying to make it to Europe, bringing the toll from the disaster to more than 200 dead. After his rescue by fishermen, he was taken to the police station where he said he was beaten.Samir Qlamosh, a local water jet loom fisherman, has become a hero in Rosetta, touted in social media after he rescued 96 survivors in his boat.Women broke into screams and some men collapsed whenever they recognized someone, some only by their clothes.For days, authorities and fishermen have been recovering bodies from the water or finding them washed up to the shore, ever since the boat capsized and sank before dawn on Sept."

Hassan said his cousin's body was found by fishermen. Egyptian authorities have so far in 2016 foiled 110 attempts to smuggle migrants to Europe. 21 about 12 kilometers (7."I will go once, twice, three times."From 4:00 am to 9:30 am, it was foggy and dark.A woman whose two sons were on the boat found one of them, 18-year-old Ahmed, among the bodies brought to the pier. Once there, he found survivors in the water and fished them out with ropes, he said.As the dead were brought to a pier outside the coastal city of Rosetta, families of the missing went through the grisly task of searching through the body bags for their loved ones.Around 160 of those on board survived, many of them spending hours in the water until rescued by local fishing boats. He spoke on condition he be identified only by his first name for fear of harassment by police. "Here they deal with us like animals. He said that the morning after the sinking, he was returning to the pier and was told by officials to go out and search. But survivors and family members all said the rescues were carried out by local fishermen, further stoking anger that authorities were not doing enough. Some were dying," he told the AP.

"The military said in a statement that it had rescued more than 160 survivors.Authorities pulled 33 dead out of the hold, bringing the toll to 203, the head of a local municipal council, Ali Abdel-Sattar, told The Associated Press.One survivor, a 17-year-old, from the nearby village of al-Gazira al-Khudra, said he and several of his friends were brought out on a smuggler boat with about 150 people and transfered onto the Procession of the Prophet, which he said was already swelling with about 300 people. Where is the coast guard " he said.He searched for 90 minutes until finally officials sent him the coordinates of the site. I looked and only saw the bottle," he said. This year, more than 12,000 migrants arrived in Italy from Egypt between January and September, compared to 7,000 in the same period last year, according to the EU border agency Frontex. We are dead anyway," he said. There, animals have rights.5 miles) off the Egyptian coast.On Tuesday, a crane vessel hauled the boat, called the Mawkib al-Rasoul, or "Procession of the Prophet," out of the mud of the seafloor so that authorities could retrieve dead trapped in the hold, including a cramped section known as the "fridge," where fishermen normally keep their catch on ice.

The sea route from Egypt to Europe has become increasingly popular for migrants. He said the screams from the boat still rang in his ears. Women broke into screams and some men collapsed whenever they recognized someone, some only by their clothes because of the bodies' condition after nearly a week in the water. "Suddenly he disappeared."We got there after people were already worn out."It was full from top to bottom. Most were believed to be Egyptians, many of them young men from poor villages in the Nile Delta, with some others from Sudan or other African countries, and at least one Syrian woman whose body was found washed ashore. But her other son was still missing. She said he no longer had a face after the days in the water. Families of those still missing have been camped out all week at the piers, waiting for word on their loved ones and angrily accusing authorities of not doing enough to find them. "From across Egypt, they can leave in boats.