(supersedes)The Coast
Guard has recovered one of two bodies spotted floating off the
coast of Sicily on Friday.
The undertow is making recovery of the second body
difficult.
Authorities are working to establish whether the dead were
aboard a migrant boat that has sunk.
A Coast Guard helicopter spotted the bodied when it was
sent out for reconnaissance after Carabinieri police saw a group
of around 30 migrants at the beach of Torre Salsa, near
Agrigento.
When questioned by police via cultural mediators, the
migrants said that there were around 40 of them and that a boat
left them at sea close to the coast.
Agrigento prosecutors are investigating the two deaths.
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