Italian officials to face trial over deadly Cutro migrant shipwreck

ROME (Reuters) -An Italian judge on Monday ordered six police and coastguard officers to stand trial for mishandling operations during a migrant shipwreck that killed more than 90 people near the town of Cutro in 2023, media reports said.

The migrant accident, one of the deadliest in Italy’s history, involved a wooden sailboat that set out from Turkey and smashed apart on rocks within sight of a beach near the shore of the southern Calabria region.

The officials — two from the coastguard and…