Ten traffickers over migrant boat deaths
The arrests follow statements made by survivors rescued from the same migrant boat earlier this week and taken to Palermo in Sicily.
When it left Libya, the migrant boat was carrying a total of nearly 500 people. The suspected traffickers were seven Moroccans, two Syrians and a Libyan.
"All the statements by the migrants confirm the same version of events," Palermo prosecutor Maurizio Scalia told a press conference. "The victims were all violently forced to stay below deck in an awful condition."
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