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Cops nab 19-yr-old people-smuggling suspect

Mohammed Diatta 'steered April 12 shipwrecked boat'

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) -Bolzano, April 21 - Police in the northern city of Bolzano have arrested a Senegalese national on suspicion of people trafficking, sources said Tuesday.
    Investigators say Mohammed Diatta, 19, was steering a boat full of migrants that capsized 80 miles off the coast of Libya on April 12, killing at least nine passengers.
    The Italian Coast Guard rescued 144 people and recovered nine bodies on that occasion.
    The arrest was as part of a joint operation with the Reggio Calabria and Trapani flying squads.
   

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