The head of the European Parliament has launched a scathing attack on some European countries he accuses of failing to take in refugees.<br /><br /> Martin Schulz says amid the European blame game the Mediterranean Sea is being turned into a “mass grave” while “gruesome scenes” are being played out at borders.<br /><br /> “We are not dealing with a failure of the EU, but rather with a glaring failure of some governments, who don’t want to take responsibility and thereby impede a joint European solution,” Schulz, a German Social Democrat, said in an interview with the country’s Die Welt newspaper.<br /><br /> It came as 683 migrants and refugees arrived at Messina in Sicily on Saturday after being rescued from boats in the Mediterranean by the Italian coast guard.<br /><br /> The bodies of two who died trying to cross from Africa were also brought ashore.<br /><br /> In Austria police stopped another truckload of refugees close to the German border. Three severely dehydrated children were among more than two dozen on board.<br /><br /> In the Fo
