Italy’s coast guard, navy, bring hundreds of migrants ashore

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Published March 11, 2023 7:12 AM

By FRANCES D’EMILIO
Associated Press

ROME (AP) — Italian coast guard and navy vessels are ferrying hundreds of migrants to shore after rescues in the Mediterranean Sea. The coast guard said overcrowding on two vessels operated by people smugglers, as well as adverse sea and weather conditions, complicated the rescue operations that started on Friday. A coast guard vessel took 584 migrants aboard. Nearly 380 from another smugglers’ vessel were later transferred to an Italian naval ship headed to eastern Sicily. Meanwhile, the known death toll from a Feb. 26 shipwreck of a migrant boat off southern Italy’s coast climbed to 74 on Saturday after the bodies of two children and an adult were recovered.

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