Two bodies were found on a migrant boat rescued in the central Mediterranean, dpa cited Italian authorities as saying Tuesday. A rubber dinghy carrying 123 migrants - 107 men and 16 women - sent out a distress signal Monday morning to the Port Authority of Palermo, the Italian Coast Guard said. A passing Greek merchant ship was asked to rescue the migrants. As it picked them up 145 nautical miles (270 kilometers) south-west of the island of Lampedusa, it found two passengers, both male, were dead. The rescued migrants said they were from Somalia, according to Italian authorities. They were expected to arrive at the Sicilian port of Augusta early Tuesday afternoon.
