Boat Full Of Migrants Capsizes In Mediterranean Sea Killing Hundreds

"When the Italian Coast Guard first got a call Saturday night from a fishing boat alerting it to a large vessel carrying migrants in the Mediterranean between the Libyan coast and the Italian island of Lampedusa, it radioed the nearest commercial ship, a Portuguese freighter called the King Jacob, to go help. What happened when the King Jacob, nearly 500 feet long, approached the multitiered m ...