LU STOUT: Now it is a day of mourning for those who lost their lives when a migrant boat on route to Italy capsized. As many as 500 migrants from Africa were on board this overcrowded boat. At least 111 have died. And around 200 are still missing. Now rescuers plucked 155 people from the sea alive, but hopes of finding more survivors are fading. Now the boat ran into trouble in waters near Italy just off the coast of the tiny island of Lampedusa. Now the island is often the first stop for African migrants desperate to find work in the European Union. The pope even visited Lampedusa earlier this year to highlight the plight of refugees. And following the recent disaster, he called for urgent action to prevent similar tragedies in the future. Now senior international correspondent Matthew Chance filed this report a short time ago from Lampedusa.</s>MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: But it's the scene of utter tragedy here on Lampedusa, the Italian coast guard say they've now recovered well over 100 bodies from the stricken vessel, which was carrying migrants. But officials tell us there may be as many as 200 more people whose bodies remain trapped in the wreckage now lying 47 meters beneath the Mediterranean Sea. So it's clearly become one of the worst disasters involving migrants in recent years. The UN says 155 people on board the boat, which capsized and caught fire on Thursday, have been rescued, most of them from the countries of Eritrea and Somalia. The captain of the boat is among the survivors. He's said to be a 35- year-old man from Tunisia and is now under arrest. The others, some of them are being treated at hospital. The others have been taken to a detention facility on the island to be process. In the meantime, it is a day of mourning on this island and elsewhere as Italy marks what has been a terrible tragedy. Matthew Chance, CNN, Lampedusa.</s>LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And coming up next, U.S. foreign policy gets caught in the fallout of the government shutdown. President Barack Obama calls off his trip to Asia. We have reaction from the region and the latest from Washington.
111 Die As Boat Capsizes Off Italian Coast