Italy allowed hundreds of refugees to drown
Italian authorities allowed hundreds of Syrian refugees to drown despite being told their boat was in danger, new audio tapes suggest. Some 268 refugees, including 60 children, drowned in 2013, after their boat capsized while sailing to Italy from Libya. The incident was one of the worst tragedies in the ongoing refugee crises; over 5,000 refugees are thought to have drowned in the Mediterranean. However, new audio tapes suggest that […]
