Valletta, Malta - A headline streams across The Times of Malta's online news portal: "Search is on for 70 missing migrants."
That was on August 27. There has since been no sign of the group despite an extensive search by two German helicopters and a Maltese army maritime squadron, part of the European Union's border patrol agency Frontex.
The 70 disappeared when they were swept off a flimsy craft which capsized after it left Libya, according to eight fellow-travellers who managed to cling onto the vessel long enough to be rescued.
It is one of the worst tragedies involving would-be immigrants in the Mediterranean - yet the Maltese newspaper's online readers' forum offered little, if any, compassion.