Date: Monday, 26 November 2018
ROME — Italian police say they have detained five Egyptians accused of smuggling a boatload of 264 migrants from Libya to Sicily.
Police said Monday that the migrants, most of them from Eritrea, identified the five Egyptian crew who charged them 1,500 euros apiece for the passage.
While most migrants are rescued at sea before reaching Italy, some do occasionally make it if their original boat is sturdy enough.
