article_snippet: The survivors were taken to ports in Italy - part of a growing surge of people risking the dangerous journey to flee poverty, civil war in Syria, military conscription in Eritrea, anarchy in Libya and other conflict zones.
article_snippet: Italian officials carry a coffin containing the body of one of the migrants who perished at sea .
article_snippet: The survivors were taken to ports in Italy - part of a growing surge of people risking the dangerous journey to flee poverty, civil war in Syria, military conscription in Eritrea, anarchy in Libya and other conflict zones .
article_snippet: An officer carries a baby as migrants disembark from an Italian Coast Guard vessel after being rescued in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, southern Italy on Wednesday .
article_snippet: Migrants wait to disembark from an Italian Coast Guard vessel after being rescued in Porto Empedocle.  
article_snippet: A migrant kneels down and raises his hands as his disembarks safely in Porto Empedocle .
article_snippet: An Italian Coast Guard vessel carrying rescued migrants arriving in Augusta .