A Kuwaiti-flagged oil tanker took
356 migrants to this Sicily port Monday after loading them from
a fishing smack which rescued them Sunday in the Sicilian
Channel.
The human cargo included one dead Syrian man, believed to
have succumbed to the arduous conditions of the perilous
crossing from Libya.
Almost 50,000 migrants have crossed to Italy this year, more
than the total for the whole of last year, as Italy's Mare
Nostrum rescue operation tries to save all comers.
Dozens have died
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