A boat packed with migrants has sunk 100 miles off the coast of southern Italy, killing several on board, the Coast Guard said Monday. The Italian Navy that 14 bodies had been recovered and stressed that the number is "not final"
The wreck follows a similar sinking off the coast of Libya on Sunday, in which roughly 40 Italy-bound migrants died. The Coast Guard said some 200 people were rescued from Monday's sinking. In a program called Mare Nostrum, Italy has ramped up search-and-rescue missions around its sea boarders since last October when two wrecks off the coast of Sicily killed roughly 400 migrants.
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