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Migrant shipwreck survivors arrested as UN says 800 dead

Medical personnel attend to a survivor of the smuggler's boat that overturned off the coast of Libya. (Photo:AP)

Italian police have arrested two suspected people traffickers among the survivors of the migrant boat that capsized off Libya on Sunday, as the UN said 800 people were killed in the Mediterranean's worst migrant disaster.

They said they had detained a Tunisian man believed to be the captain of the vessel and a Syrian allegedly a member of the ship's crew, taken from a group of 27 haggard survivors who arrived in the Sicilian port of Catania on Monday evening. Both face charges of people trafficking.

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