Lampedusa: Angelino Alfano

Angelino Alfano: PALERMO, Italy - More than 300 people drowned or were feared dead after a boat packed with African migrants caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday, one of the worst disasters of Europe's chronic immigration crisis. , according to Reuters. The incident occurred when the boat's motor stopped working and the vessel, which had set out from the Libyan port of Misrata, began to take on water, Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said. By Wladimir Pantaleone The 20-metre 66-foot boat, believed to be carrying around 500 people, mostly Eritreans and Somalis, sank no more than 1 km half a mile from shore after a fire broke out, triggering a general panic that capsized the vessel. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.