Italy: Migrants paid 8,000 euros each for 'voyage of death'

Italy: Migrants paid 8,000 euros each for 'voyage of death'

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Rescue teams have pulled another body from the sea. That brings the death toll from Italy’s latest migrant tragedy to 64. Prosecutors have identified three suspected smugglers. Police said Tuesday that they charged 8,000 euros each for the “voyage of death” from Turkey to Italy. The overcrowded wooden boat slammed into the shoals just a few hundred meters off Italy’s Calabrian coast and broke apart early Sunday in rough seas. Eighty people survived. But dozens more are feared dead since survivors indicated the boat had carried around 170 people when it set off last week from Turkey.

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