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Lampedusa tragedy

Migrants

An eye doctor was out on a yacht one night and ended up in the middle of a humanitarian disaster

Conflict

Optician Carmine Menna, his wife Rosario, and six of their friends were sleeping after a night of revelry at sea in a small yacht off the coast Lampedusa in the early hours of Oct. 3, 2013, when they heard what sounded like seagulls fighting.

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