Unlucky numbers as migrants flood into Italy
As a second migrant boat tragedy unfolds in Italy, Europe Editor Matt Frei recalls going with the patrol boats – a “needle in a haystack” job.
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Italy’s navy rescues more than 200 migrants off the island of Lampedusa in a sign that the migration crisis for Italian Premier Enrico Letta is set to continue in 2014.
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As a second migrant boat tragedy unfolds in Italy, Europe Editor Matt Frei recalls going with the patrol boats – a “needle in a haystack” job.
Authorities say the search to recover bodies from a fishing boat that sank off the southern island of Lampedusa in Italy has been called off for a second day because of bad weather.
Hundreds are still unaccounted for and dozens have died after a ship carrying migrant African workers was wrecked off the coast of Italy.
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