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A truck transporting coffins arrives at the Piano Gatta’s cemetery before the funeral of immigrants on October 15, 2013 in Agrigento in Sicily. Dozens of burials in anonymous vaults began yesterday in a small cemetery of Piano Gatta near the city of Agrigento in Sicily, even though Prime Minister Enrico Letta had promised to hold a state funeral for the victims. Italy’s worst-ever refugee tragedy happened in the early hours of October 3 when a boat laden with Eritrean and Somali asylum-seekers caught fire, capsized and sank within sight of the coast. AFP PHOTO / MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO