Death toll from latest Med migrant tragedy rises to 50

[WorldNews]

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Italy's coastguard rescued 127 people and recovered 10 bodies on Tuesday after a boat capsized off Sicily when the people on board rushed to one side of the vessel in a stampede to get onto the arriving coastguard boat. Di Giacomo said the latest deaths took the migrant death toll in the waters between north Africa and southern Italy to more than 400 since the start of the year. Italy's foreign ministry said Thursday that 8,918 migrants had been landed in Italy between January 1 and March 4, a near 60-percent increase from the total of 5,611 registered in the same period in 2014.

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