Migrant boat capsizes - in pictures

A handout image grab released by the armed forces of Malta shows people being rescued from the Mediterranean
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The Maltese patrol boat P-61 nears land with more than 140 shipwrecked asylum seekers aboard after a 10-hour journey from where tragedy struck 61 nautical miles south of the Italian island of Lampedusa Photograph: Christian Mangion/Demotix/Corbis

Rescued migrants arrive at Haywharf maritime base in Malta Photograph: Christian Mangion/Demotix/Corbis

Italian and Maltese naval vessels have recovered 34 bodies and rescued 206 people Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

Maltese rescue workers escort a migrant who was rescued by the armed forces Photograph: Matthew Mirabelli/AFP/Getty Images

Children are carried to safety by police and officers of the Maltese armed forces Photograph: Christian Mangion/Demotix/Corbis

A Maltese rescue worker carries a baby. Dozens of people, mostly women and children, were killed when the boat packed with people desperate to reach Europe sank off Malta Photograph: Matthew Mirabelli/AFP/Getty Images

The body of a drowned migrant is lowered from a ship at the Haywharf base in Valletta's grand harbour Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

The Maltese armed forces' patrol boat P-61 Photograph: Matthew Mirabelli/AFP/Getty Images

Rescued migrants wait to disembark from a Maltese ship Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

A rescued migrant cries as he carries his child to a police bus after disembarking from a Maltese ship Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

Migrants sit in a police bus at Valletta's Marsamxett harbour after being rescued by the armed forces of Malta Photograph: Matthew Mirabelli/AFP/Getty Images