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Antonino D'Urso/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images(CUTRO, Italy) -- A least 58 migrants were killed and more than 81 were rescued Sunday when the human

(CUTRO, Italy) -- A least 58 migrants were killed and more than 81 were rescued Sunday when the human smuggling boat they were aboard slammed into the rocks off the coast of southern Italy and "disintegrated" just feet from the shoreline, officials said. Up to 150 migrants reportedly from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria

(CUTRO, Italy) -- A least 58 migrants were killed and more than 81 were rescued Sunday when the human smuggling boat they were aboard slammed into the rocks off

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At least 82 passengers survived the shipwreck.

At least 58 migrants were killed and more than 81 were rescued Sunday when the wooden smuggling boat they were aboard crashed in southern Italy.

Forty-three migrants died and 80 others survived after their boat sank off the Italian coastal city of Crotone in the southern region of Calabria on Sunday (February 26). Speaking to the news agency Reuters, Danilo Maida, a spokesperson for the firefighters' service in Calabria, said that firefighters and other emergency workers were looking for more survivors at sea using jet skis, but conditions were harsh, making the search difficult. The boat had 120 migrants aboard. 

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