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Kurd
dies in packed truck on ferry to Italy
A Kurdish illegal immigrant has been found dead,
apparently of suffocation, on a Greek ferry that
docked in the Italian port of Ancona, the Merchant
Marine Ministry said on Saturday.
Italian authorities discovered the corpse on Friday.
The victim had been packed into a Dutch truck with
another 12 migrants and brought to Ancona by ferry
from Igoumenitsa, the ministry said.
The other 12 migrants, two of whom had suffered
severe dehydration, were hospitalized in Ancona. The
men, all Kurds, had been concealed in a special
compartment of the small truck.
The driver of the truck, whose nationality was not
revealed, is being detained, the ministry said.
On Saturday, the coast guard intercepted a total of
17 illegal immigrants in the Aegean — nine on Lesvos
and eight on the islet of Farmakonisi, near Leros in
the Dodecanese.
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