A Carabinieri police officer shot dead a migrant who stabbed him at a tent camp in the southern Italian town of San Ferdinando, ANSA sources said on Wednesday. The officer had intervened with a colleague to break up a fight between two non-EU migrants at the camp, which in winter hosts thousands of seasonal workers engaged in orange picking in Calabria. One of the two migrants pulled out a knife and injured the officer, prompting the officer to shoot, sources said. The Carabiniere was said to have sustained at least three stab wounds, to an eye and an arm. The dead migrant was said to have come from Mali. The initial fight reportedly started after an attempt to steal from the migrant who then turned on police.
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