By Steve Scherer and Tony Gentile PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Sandy and grimy, the watches, cell phones, family photos, $100 bills, and passports from Pakistan, Syria and Sudan are the tattered possessions of migrants who died at sea. "We treat these cases as murder cases," said Giovanni Drago, a longtime member of Palermo's homicide squad which gave Reuters permission to photograph the possessions. Many of the corpses brought to Palermo had been removed from below the deck of a wooden fishing boat.



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