A cargo vessel carrying hundreds of migrants has arrived in Italy after it was abandoned by smugglers and left drifting without a crew in the second such case in just a few days.

The commander of the Italian coast guard told Al Jazeera that he believed the crew had deliberately disabled the ship before abandoning it, in the knowledge the Italian navy would perform a rescue.

Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from Corigliano in southern Italy.

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