Migrant crisis: Italy a haven from killings and kidnaps

4th September 2016

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"My life was at risk. My wife and brother were killed on the same day." His name is Lucky - a 20-year-old Nigerian. He is one of more than 118,000 people to have made the perilous journey from Libya to Italy so far this year.

Nearly 15,000 have been picked up off the coast of Libya since 28 August.

This year alone, almost 3,000 have perished or been lost at sea.

With so many arriving so quickly, southern Italy is feeling the pressure.

At the port of Pozzallo in Sicily, a naval ship arrived carrying 700 men, women...