Word: albenga
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Eventually fishermen, vacationers, carabinieri from the village of Albenga and the three crewmen brought in 44 small corpses and three of the women. On a long, banquet-sized table covered with a white cloth in the White Cross aid station, the 44 children were laid in a neat row, side by side. Each child's hands were carefully clasped on his breast, each tiny fist held a flower. When the parents and relatives arrived from Milan, one Italian reporter wrote, the grisly hall became "a wild whirlpool of grief and insanity...
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