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                    Migrant Boat Capsizes Off Italian Island

   Officials on the Italian island of Lampedusa say at least 82 people are
   dead after a boat carrying African migrants caught fire and capsized
   offshore.
   Government officials said at least 150 people have been rescued so far.
   It is unclear how many people were originally on the boat, and how the
   fire started.
   Lampedusa, an island closer to continental Africa than to the Italian
   mainland, is often the destination for boats full of migrant workers
   seeking entrance to the European Union.
   On Monday this week, 13 would-be migrants drowned off the coast of
   nearby Sicily after their boat sank and they tried to swim to shore.
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