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The Lampedusa shipwreck tragedy

Ambesager Araya was rescued by Vito Fiorino when a boat taking more than 500 migrants from Libya sank 800 metres off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island, on 3 October 2013.

It was one of the worst migrant shipwrecks on the Mediterranean Sea and the tragedy led to a joint European effort to tackle the migrant crisis, but the numbers embarking on the journey, and dying, continued to rise.

Ambesager and Vito speak to each other, 10 years on.

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