Prison sentences for traffickers Italy

Six members of a human trafficking gang convicted in Italy for the death of hundreds of people on board a refugee ship in the Mediterranean.

The sinking of the refugee boat, near the Italian island of Lampedusa sank, it took in October 2013 366 Eritrean and Somali migrants living. They were put Libya on the boat by the gang.

Three henchmen of the convicts, including the alleged leader of the gang, take refuge in Libya.