Italy to step up patrols in hope of saving migrants from shipwreck
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Italy is to step up military patrols in the southern Mediterranean to try to prevent repeats of the shipwrecks which have drowned hundreds of African migrants this month. Prime Minister Enrico Letta said late on Saturday an "air and naval package" would be put in place south of Sicily, where tens of thousands of migrants in flimsy, overcrowded boats have made the crossing from Africa this year.
Italian officials have been increasingly worried by uncontrolled arrivals from a region destabilized by civil war in Syria, chaos in Libya and unrest in Egypt and elsewhere. (Reuters)
