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By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - A dead baby plucked out of the sea whose picture sparked international outrage this week was probably a six-month-old Somali boy whose mother also most likely died in the shipwreck, Italian police said on Wednesday. The baby was pulled from the sea last Friday by a German rescuer working for humanitarian organization Sea-Watch after a wooden boat carrying more than 400 migrants capsized and sank some 58 km (36 miles) off the Libyan coast. Sea-Watch immediately handed the boy's body over to the crew of the Vega, an Italian navy ship.

 

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