Death Toll in Migrant Ship Sinking Passes 230.

Strong winds and a leaky hull caused a panic aboard an overcrowded ship that capsized in the seas off of Libya on Monday, and more than 230 of the 257 Europe-bound migrants aboard are presumed dead, officials from the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday. The 20 survivors, interviewed by the organization at an assessment center outside of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, on Wednesday, said they had clung to the hull in the roiling sea for eight hours after the boat overturned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]