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State TV: 4 migrants die in fire on boat off Italian coast

by Associated Press
| August 30, 2020 7:03 AM

ROME (AP) — Fire erupted on a migrants’ sailboat off the coast of southern Italy on Sunday, and Italian news reports said at least four perished and others were missing in the sea, the latest drama in the nation’s struggle to deal with hundreds of migrants reaching its shores this summer.

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