Italian Navy finds wreckage of sunk migrant boat where hundreds perished

The Italian Navy estimates 800 people died when the boat capsized.

Twenty-eight people were rescued from the doomed ship, and told investigators of the cramped conditions on the boat. Only 24 bodies were recovered in the area where the boat sank.

Among those who survived are the boat's suspected pilot and his assistant. Both were arrested.

Italian prosecutors ordered an investigation into why the boat sank, and the nation's Navy confirmed on Friday that it had found the wreckage in the Mediterranean Sea, about 85 miles north of the Libyan coast, at a depth of 375 meters.

The boat's pilot may have caused the migrant ship to tip over because of a navigation error, or the boat simply may have been overcrowded, according to an earlier statement from the prosecutor's office.