Rescuers pull 650 boat migrants to safety, find 5 corpses: Italy

Cause of death has not been determined. 
Rescuers pulled some 650 migrants to safety and recovered five dead bodies from boats in difficulty off the coast of Libya on Wednesday, Italy’s coastguard said in a statement.
On the frontier between Europe and Africa, Italy is the focus for hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa, packed into rickety boats by smugglers.
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Source: reuters.com

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