http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28383622
19 July 2014 Last updated at 07:18 ET 
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Nineteen migrants have died, reportedly by suffocating, aboard a crowded boat travelling from North Africa to Italy.
The migrants are thought to have choked on fumes from an old engine while they were confined below deck, Italian news agency Ansa reports.
Rescuers found 18 people in a tangle of bodies. Another person is said to have died during the evacuation. The boat was carrying some 600 people.
Italy is struggling to cope with a rising flow of migrants to its shores.
Many of them make the dangerous crossing from Africa on crowded and unseaworthy vessels, says the BBC’s Rome correspondent, Alan Johnston.
The boat in the latest incident was heading for the Italian island of Lampedusa. It was intercepted after it sent out an SOS signal.
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