Heavy terms for traffickers

Five suspected crew members still face trial.

Italy judge jails 3 for 20 years each over deadly 2015 migrant voyage

An Italian judge sentenced three men to 20 years each in jail on Wednesday for their role in packing hundreds of migrants into a boat in which 49 suffocated in the Mediterranean last August, a legal source said.

The judge in Catania, Sicily, found the three guilty of murder and facilitating illegal immigration, more than a year after rescuers recovered the victims from the hold of a fishing boat from which they also pulled 312 survivors.

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Source: uk.reuters.com

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