Italian authorities said Sunday that 1,524 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean over the previous 24 hours, in five separate interventions, dpa reported. On Friday, it could not intervene in time to rescue the passengers of a dinghy which sank about 75 kilometers north of Libyan shores. Thirty-nine survivors were picked up on Saturday, along with the bodies of 10 victims - three men and seven women. On Sunday, they were disembarked in Palermo, Sicily, along with 767 migrants intercepted in other rescue operations. Four survivors from Friday's incident were hospitalized with burn injuries, authorities said.
