An Italian navy ship was set later Friday to bring to Sicily a group of 76 would-be immigrants rescued from a vessel on which the bodies of two dead people were also recovered, DPA reported. The deaths added to this week's tragic toll involving migrants in the Mediterranean where over 230 people are feared to have drowned. The Italian ship picked up the group, including 17 women, after Italian coastguard officials on Thursday night received a satellite telephone distress call from the vessel carrying the migrants. According to those rescued, the dead - a man and a woman - succumbed from dire conditions on the overcrowded vessel which had apparently set sail from Libya. The nationalities of the dead and survivors was not immediately clear.
