Quiet Italy hamlets struggle with migrant ‘human warehouses’

CONETTA, Italy: They used to be sleepy hamlets on Italy’s sun-baked Padan Plain. But two years with hundreds of asylum seekers packed into overcrowded centers dubbed “human warehouse” are taking their toll -- on both migrants and villagers.

Inside vast white tents erected in a former military zone on the outskirts of the tiny village of Conetta, some 1,400 men from across Africa while away their days, packed onto endless rows of bunks as the temperatures rise.