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2022-02-20 Europe

Italy arrests Egyptian after cold kills seven migrants

#Italian police arrests an #Egyptian suspected of trafficking migrants across the #Mediterranean during a trip that has left seven people dead from hypothermia.https://t.co/v5q9w18Hyt
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) February 19, 2022

Italian police said Saturday they had arrested an Egyptian suspected of trafficking ~~migrants~~ colonists across the Mediterranean during a trip that left seven people dead from hypothermia.

The suspect is accused of organizing the dangerous crossing by a boat carrying 287 people from Libya. Most were suffering from the cold when they were rescued by the coasties on January 25.

Police in the Sicilian city of Agrigento said in a statement that the ordeal on the overcrowded, 16-meter boat ended "with the death, by hypothermia, of seven Bangladeshi citizens, due to the inhumane conditions of the voyage."

The 38-year-old suspect, who was identified through witness testimony of survivors, had already been sentenced for a 2011 people smuggling crime in Sicily, police said, without providing further detail.

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