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Italy holds suspected ship captain; death toll 275

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Italy detained a Tunisian man Oct. 8 suspected of being the captain of a boat carrying African migrants that sank off the tiny island of Lampedusa, as divers recovered more bodies from the wreck, raising the death toll to 275.

Just 155 migrants, most from Eritrea, survived the Oct. 3 shipwreck. Some 500 would-be asylum-seekers were aboard when the ship capsized.

Tens of thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East try to cross the Mediterranean Sea each year, but the journey is fraught with danger. (AP)

イタリア沖で密航船沈没、死者275人

イタリア南部ランペドゥーザ島沖で10月３日、アフリカの難民を乗せた密航船が沈没。8日、船長と見られる男が拘束され、収容遺体数は300人近くに上った。

The Japan Times ST: October 18, 2013