The tragedies of refugees in the Mediterranean never end: after a break of four days, there were new arrivals on Lampedusa. The body of a 20-day-old baby was discovered on a boat that arrived on the island on Thursday morning, island authorities said.
No signs of violence were found on the body of the Ivory Coast child. According to the mother, who arrived in Lampedusa with other migrants, the baby had lung problems. The public prosecutor’s office of the Sicilian city of Agrigento has launched an investigation. There were 36 people on board the boat on which the child was found, including nine women and two minors. Two migrants suffered burns, authorities said.
Young woman died after landing
A young migrant died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday after arriving on the island, believed to be the result of hypothermia. The woman was with 43 other people on a boat that left Sfax in Tunisia three days ago in the evening, bound for Lampedusa. The woman was taken to hospital after landing, where doctors tried unsuccessfully to save her.
Currently, 1180 people are housed in the Lampedusa hotspot, which actually only has 400 seats. On Thursday, several refugees will be taken to Sicily. Nearly 90,000 migrants have arrived in Italy since early 2022 after sea voyages across the Mediterranean. In the comparison period 2021 there were 57,000, in 2020 there were 30,000.
Italy wants to send refugees back
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized the decision of Sicilian health authorities on Wednesday evening to allow about 250 people on board two NGO rescue ships to disembark in Catania for health reasons. The ships, the “Humanity 1” and the “Geo Barents”, docked in the Sicilian city on Sunday, but the government initially only allowed people deemed risky to go ashore. The government had ordered the ships to return to international waters with the other people still on board.
Source: Krone
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