PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - At least 13 people on a migrant boat arriving in Sicily drowned close to the coast near the eastern city of Ragusa, apparently after trying to disembark from their stranded vessel, Italian authorities said on Monday.
Television pictures showed the bodies, all of adult men, wrapped in white sheets lying on the beach at Sampieri, on the southeastern coast of Sicily.
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