Hearses, coffins arrive on Lampedusa after migrant shipwreck Hearses and lorries carrying hundreds of coffins arrive on Lampedusa ahead of a ceremony to honour the 300 asylum seekers feared dead after the boat they were on sank off the coast. Dozens of immigrants who had previously arrived on the island are shipped off to the mainland to make room in the island's reception centre for the 150 or so survivors. Images from this morning and soundbites of the director of Lampedusa's reception centre