MIGRANT SHIP DEATH TOLL HITS 275

Lampedusa, Italy Italy arrested a 35-year-old Tunisian man on Tuesday suspected of being the captain of a boat carrying African migrants that sank off the tiny island of Lampedusa. divers, meanwhile, found dozens more bodies in the wreckage, raising the death toll to 275. Just 155 migrants, most if not all from eritrea, survived Thursday’s shipwreck. Survivors said there were 500 asylum-seekers aboard when the ship capsized. Tens of thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle east try to cross the Mediterranean Sea each year, seeking a better life in europe, but the journey is fraught with danger.