The number of refugees and other migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe is rising—and tragedies are increasing
Margherita StancatiSTECCATO DI CUTRO, Italy—At 4 a.m., as seawater poured into Summer Love, a rickety wooden boat packed with migrants, Assad al-Mulki grabbed his little brother, ran upstairs to the deck and jumped.
In the rough, cold sea, Mr. Mulki, a 22-year-old Syrian asylum seeker, held his 6-year-old brother Sultan with one arm and a piece of flotsam with the other. The coast of Calabria was just a few hundred feet away.
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