Ten traffickers over migrant boat deaths

Updated Aug. 28, 2015, midnight | By Laila Majiet

Italian authorities said Friday they had arrested ten suspected people smugglers in connection with the death by asphyxiation of 52 people who had been forced to remain in the hold of a migrant boat on which 52 people asphyxiated.

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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