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Italy shipwreck death toll at 62, including children

Italy shipwreck death toll at 62, including children

REMO CASILLI and ANGELO AMANTE RESCUERS recovered three more bodies, a day after a wooden sailboat carrying migrants to Europe smashed onto rocks in stormy weather off southern Italy, bringing the death toll to 62, including at least 14 children. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said more than two dozen Pakistanis were believed to have been among the vessel's passengers. Rescuers said many Afghanis and some Iranians had also been aboard the boat. "We met a survivor who fled Afghanistan with his sister to escape the Taliban. She did not survive," said Sergio Di Dato, a project coordinator with the charity Doctors…
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Migrant shipwreck in southern Italy kills at least 58, including children

Migrant shipwreck in southern Italy kills at least 58, including children

GIANNI DANIELE and ALVISE ARMELLINI AT least 58 people died, including several children when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants from Turkey to Europe crashed against rocks near the southern Italian coast early, authorities said. The deadly incident reopened a debate on migration in Europe and Italy, where a recently-elected right-wing government has introduced tough new laws for migrant rescue charities, which drew criticism from the United Nations and others. The provisional death toll stands at 58, Manuela Curra, a provincial government official, told Reuters. She said 81 people survived, with 20 hospitalised including one person in intensive care. As emergency services…
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