Italy arrests two migrant trafficking suspects

Italy has arrested one Gambian and one Somali national on suspicion of migrant trafficking after the Italian Navy rescued a total of 576 asylum seekers and recovered the body of a Somali man in the Mediterranean over the weekend.

It is believed they left aboard seven different vessels from the Libyan coastal city of Sabratha.

The asylum seekers were rescued in seven different operations Saturday in the waters between Libya and Italy’s Lampedusa Island.

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