Italian coast guard says rescues dozens of migrants, two dead

ROME: Italy’s coast guard said Sunday it had rescued 91 people from a migrant boat adrift off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, but two males were found dead. The boat was drifting some 16 nautical miles from the Italian island when it was located by an EU border agency plane, the coast guard said in a statement, adding it had dispatched two patrol boats. “During the inspection of the below-deck areas, additional migrants in serious health conditions and two bodies, both male, were discovered,” it said.

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