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A baby as young as six months, with severe burns across half of her face, was among traumatized survivors of the latest sea rescue off the coast of southern Italy's Lampedusa Island.
The infant was one of 70 refugees and migrants on board a half-inflated rubber dinghy that had set sail from Libya and been rescued by the Italian coastguard after two days on the Mediterranean Sea.
Nearly 70 men women and children were rescued in the Mediterranean and brought to Lampedusa Island, the vast majority suffering terrible burns from a gas canister explosion.
Over 13,000 refugees have been rescued on the coast of Italy in April alone.
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