Italy Detains 2 in Mediterranean Migrant Disaster.
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Catania, 21 April 2015(Lana) Italian Minister of Infrastructure
Grastiano Delerio said Italian authorities have detained two
survivors of the Sunday boat tragedy of suspicion of human
trafficking after they have arrived in Catania in Sicily.
The Prosecutor General of Catania Giovanni Silvia who ordered an
investigation to be initiated into the tragedy has also ordered that
the two men be detained.
Officials at the Prosecutor office identified the men as the
Tunisian captain of the boat and his Syrian first mate.
Italian Police have conducted more than 27 interviews with
survivors as they were moved to an Italian coast guard ship. They
believe that as many as 900 people have drowned,
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