Reuters, 31/05 15:38 CET
ROME (Reuters) – Italian police have
arrested 16 people suspected of trafficking migrants across the
Mediterranean from Libya after a week in which thousands were rescued
and hundreds drowned trying to make the journey.
As Europe’s worst migration crisis since World War Two
continues, more than 2,500 people are thought to have died this year
after being packed into rickety boats by traffickers.
Police in Catania, Sicily, said in a statement on Tuesday
they had detained 16 men who were rescued in international waters along
with hundreds of migrants and brought to the port city on May 28.
On arrival, testimony from the migrants helped police to
identify a Gambian man believed to have captained one of the boats from
Libya and 15 others who had brought fuel, looked after the engine and
supervised the migrants during the journey.
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Source: euronews.
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