Migrants risk their lives to reach Italian island - CBS News
The U.S. Navy came to the rescue of 128 Somali migrants on a rickety boat in the Mediterranean Sea.
They were picked up late Wednesday by the USS San Antonio, the ship on which a Libyan terror suspect was interrogated earlier this month. On Thursday, the migrants were transferred to Maltese authorities.
They were just the latest group attempting the perilous journey from Africa to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
More than 500 have died in two shipwrecks this month, and yet the migrants keep trying.
On Lampedusa, there's a stretch of beach covered with the wreckage of boats. Locals call this "the boat cemetery." Most of the vessels were barely seaworthy before they ended up here.
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