Seven refugees have died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean in cold weather, the mayor of Italy’s Lampedusa island told AFP on Tuesday. Reportedly from Bangladesh, they were making the perilous crossing from Libya in a boat carrying 280 people. “Three people died during the crossing, another four suffering severe hypothermia died after they were intercepted by the coastguard and were being transferred to the island,” mayor Toto Martello said. The Mediterranean Hope migration project said on Twitter that the 280 migrants came originally from Bangladesh, Egypt, Mali and Sudan, and “almo…