Officials say four members of the vessel’s crew are facing echarges of human trafficking and manslaughter.

Authorities in Cairo have also issued arrest warrants for five more people wanted in connection with the tragedy off the port city of  Rosetta on Wednesday.

They say they don’t have an exact number of people on board in the ill-fated boat, but 250-400 seems likely. 157 people were rescued.

An initial breakdown of the nationalities of the migrants shows t they included 111 Egyptians, mostly teenagers and men in their 20s.

There were also 25 Sudanese, while the rest were sub-Saharan Africans and Syrians.

The search for bodies continues.

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