The asylum seekers - who are from Bangladesh and Egypt - will be taken to Bari by a port authority vessel. They are expected to reach the southern Italian port city at around 8:30 pm local time.
On December 2, 1943, a German air raid on Allied ships in the port of Bari, Italy, hit the US Navy’s SS John Harvey. As ships in the harbor sank, men threw themselves into water poisoned by the Harvey ...