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The Italian judiciary has issued an arrest warrant for two suspected smugglers for the deaths of 10 people travelling across the Mediterranean Sea in hopes of reaching Europe. The two men, both from Egypt, are accused of being responsible for the suffocation deaths of the migrants, a spokesman for the judiciary announced on Sunday. Most of the victims came from Pakistan and Bangladesh. People often die on the crossing from Africa to Europe in boats that are often barely seaworthy. The dead were discovered in mid-June in the hold of a wooden boat that had set off for Europe from Libya and was t…

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