{UAH} Mutinous migrants threaten to kill Italian crew after rescue

"After hauling them on board the captain asked the Libyan coastguard to pick them up, prompting an angry reaction from some of the migrants, who had hoped to be sent to Italy.

"'Death threats were made and some of the 12 crew members were pushed,' a spokesman at Italy's transport ministry said. 'It turned from a rescue to piracy.'

"As a Libyan coastguard boat approached, the migrants became more aggressive and the crew turned for help from the Italian coastguard, which dispatched a vessel given the 'grave danger' that the crew was in."

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Mutinous migrants threaten to kill Italian crew after rescue

African migrants threatened to kill the crew of an Italian cargo vessel that had rescued them in the Mediterranean, in an attempt to avoid being 

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