Migrant Rescue Ship Ferries Survivors, Bodies to Italy

A Norwegian migrant rescue ship docked Monday in Sicily, ferrying another 416 migrants to the shores of Europe, but also carrying the bodies of 49 victims who died on their perilous Mediterranean passage from Africa. The bodies were carried in a container aboard the ship, which arrived in Catania, after coast guard crews rescued 313 from an overcrowded fishing boat Saturday off the Libyan shoreline. Another 103 migrants were also aboard the Norwegian ship that had been rescued by a...

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