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Tragedy in Lampedusa (3): aircraft of the Italian Air Force will carry the coffins for the 94 victims

Lampedusa, Italy - The Mayor of the island obtains an additional flight to carry the journalists

An aircraft of the Italian Air Force will carry to Lampedusa the coffins needed to bury the bodies of the 94 casualties which occurred in the morning of Thursday 3 october 2013, near the shores of the Sicilian island, when a boat loaded with Eritrean migrants which departed from Libya sunk. The cause of the shipwreck is reportedly a fire which spread on board after a pyre was atsrted by some of...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1155568
Rome, Italy, 10/03/2013 17:57
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