Despite the low temperatures, the number of migrant arrivals in southern Italy is increasing again. A total of 278 people arrived in Lampedusa on New Year’s Eve. Including seven people who survived a shipwreck near Lampedusa. A rescued Syrian boy lost his mother.
The people reached the southern Italian island aboard four boats that were intercepted by the Italian coast guard. The majority of migrants are Egyptians, Pakistanis, Syrians and Palestinians.
The search for twenty people missing after a shipwreck near Lampedusa continued on Wednesday evening. Three children, among others, are missing. The migrants had left Libya.
A photo of the shipwreck:
A surviving Syrian boy lost his mother
Seven people, including an eight-year-old Syrian boy, were rescued and housed in the island’s hotspot. The surviving boy, who lost his mother at sea, was able to contact his father, who lives in Germany. The child is taken to Sicily. “I hope this is really the last refugee tragedy we have to experience,” emphasized Filippo Mannino, mayor of Lampedusa.
Four arrests after accident near Tunisia
Two Tunisian migrants, including a five-year-old child, died this week in a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia. Seventeen people were rescued after the boat they were on sank off the coast of Tunisia. The boat had left for Italy, Italian media reported on Tuesday. Four people suspected of smuggling were arrested.
This year, 65,696 migrants arrived in Italy after a sea journey across the Mediterranean Sea; in 2023 there were 156,844. In 2022, 104,459 migrants reached Italy, the Interior Ministry in Rome announced on Tuesday.
Source: Krone
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