Migrants have died again while crossing the Mediterranean. They had previously boarded a fishing boat carrying 674 migrants that was being taken to safety by the Italian coast guard off the coast of the southern Italian region of Calabria. There were also 30 unaccompanied minors on board. Five bodies were recovered from the water.
Some of the rescued migrants arrived in Sicily on Sunday and some in Calabria.
Previously, the coast guard had rescued other migrants on unseaworthy boats in Italian waters with the Italian naval vessel “Diciotti”.
The rescue ship “Ocean Viking” rescued an overcrowded inflatable boat with 87 people on board, which was floating in international waters off Libya. There were also several unaccompanied minors on board. Neither of them had a life jacket. The survivors are now being taken care of by the teams of the Red Cross and SOS Mediterranee.
Reception center on Lampedusa at the limit
15 landings with a total of 411 migrants were reported on Sunday evening on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. The hotspot with 1184 guests is about to collapse. Several migrants had been rescued by the coast guard in recent days or had reached the island directly in small boats.
Since early 2022, 34,013 migrants have reached the southern Italian coast. In the same period in 2022, there were 25,552 according to the Italian Ministry of the Interior in Rome.
Source: Krone
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