Immigrants thrown overboard off Italian coast

ROME (Reuters) - Italian police have arrested five Nigerian traffickers accused of throwing 13 illegal immigrants off their boat because of fears that they brought bad luck, investigative sources said Monday. Twelve of the victims, all men, were from Nigeria and one from Ghana. All are presumed dead. The sources said survivors from the boat -- which arrived in Sicily carrying 59 immigrants on September 11 -- reported that the 13 had... [read full story]