Ship rescues 356 in Med, one Syrian dead

(ANSA) - Augusta, June 16 - 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