Italy rescues hundreds of migrants on freighter abandoned by crew

January 03, 2015 04:22

For the second time in three days, the Italian authorities found themselves racing on Friday to rescue hundreds of migrants from an aging freighter that traffickers had pointed toward Italyand then abandoned, leaving the ship to plow through wintry seas at top speed with no one at the helm, on a collision course with the coastline.

Rescuers were able to board the ship only after it ran out of fuel and stopped, and by afternoon they were towing it toward shore. But the episode was further confirmation that traffickers have hit on a new tactic to extract ever greater profits from human misery while eluding apprehension.

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