foxnews.com - At least 62 people died when a ship carrying African migrants toward Italy caught fire and sank off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, spilling hundreds of passengers into the sea, officials said Thursday.Antonio Candela, the government's health commissioner for Palermo, told Sky TG24 that 62 bodies have been found and that search and rescue operations are continuing.So far 141 people have been rescued, but the boat is believed to have been carrying as many as 500 people.
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