An Italian coastguard vessel found
eight bodies including that of a pregnant woman aboard a migrant
boat in Maltese search and rescue (SAR) waters Friday.
The coastguard boat unloaded the bodies at Lampedusa, the
stepping stone island for migrants between Italy and north
Africa.
The big migrant boat had dozens of other North Africans on
board.
Two other people are reportedly missing from the migrant boat
while a woman threw her dead four-month-old son into the sea out
of cold and desperation.
Seven of the dead migrants reportedly died of the cold,
including three women in all, while the eighth was a man who
drowned after throwing himself into the sea after the dead
infant, whom he thought was still alive.
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