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After a three-day boat voyage from Libya to Lampedusa - a small island off Italy’s southern coast - 25 African migrants were found dead. The suspected cause – toxic suffocation.

Here’s euronews.

Italian coast guards found the boat less than a mile off the coast of Lampedusa after one of the passengers of the boat used his mobile phone to call for help.

“Others on board have reportedly said the dead, all adult men, were packed inside the hold and killed by motor fumes. The vessel, which was carrying nearly 300 migrants mainly from sub-Saharan Africa, left Libya three days ago according to officials.”

Passengers say many of the nearly 300 on board were packed into a cramped cargo space near the engine -- with little air circulation. According to Corriere della Sera, escaping the cargo hold wasn’t an option.

“From an initial reconstruction, some statements made by listening to other migrants, it would seem that the victims were the first people to climb on the boat 15 meters long, taking place at the bottom of the boat: only access, a trapdoor just 50 cm wide.”

But were the migrants on deck completely in the dark about their dying counterparts below? La Repubblica reports...

“No one had spoken of the dead, which were discovered by the sailors of the Coast Guard when they performed as usual inspection of the entire boat before leaving it… The rescue operation was triggered after a phone call with a mobile phone from one of the passengers of the boat … but even he had spoken of the corpses.”

According to The New York Times, this is the second worst tragedy this year since the region’s turmoil began.

“Unrest in northern Africa this year has resulted in a steady exodus of immigrants to Europe, a voyage made more perilous because of the precarious state of many of the vessels used by traffickers … an estimated 1,674 people have died or were lost at sea in the Sicilian channel since the beginning of 2011...”

But the BBC says Italians have been let down by the European Union in dealing with the immense amounts of refugees arriving on their doorstep.

“Without great success, the Italians have claimed that this is not an Italian problem, it’s European problem as many of these Africans are using Italy merely as a place to transit through to go and rejoin other family members who may be seeking new lives in Germany, in France and in Britain.”

Survivors of the sea voyage to Lampedusa will be moved across Italy after receiving identification.

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