Italy: Two dead and 57 rescued after migrant boats sink off Lampedusa | Oneindia News
Italy’s coast guard said on Sunday it had recovered two bodies and rescued 57 people off the southern island of Lampedusa, amid reports that more than 30 people were missing after two shipwrecks.
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00:00 Italy's Coast Guard said on Sunday it had recovered two bodies and rescued 57 people
00:06 off the southern island of Lampedusa amid reports that more than 30 people were missing
00:11 after two shipwrecks.
00:13 Two migrant boats that had set off from the port of Sfax, a hotspot for Tunisia's migration
00:18 crisis, had sunk on Saturday on the way to Europe.
00:22 One boat was carrying 48 people, the second 42.
00:25 The Coast Guard had found survivors about 23 nautical miles southwest of Lampedusa,
00:30 as well as the two victims, a woman from Ivory Coast and a one-year-old child.
00:36 As per local media reports, at least 20 migrants had been stuck since Friday on a cliff after
00:40 their boat crashed against rocks upon arrival in Lampedusa.
00:44 However, the Coast Guard was unable to reach them via sea or helicopter.
00:49 NGO group Open Arms took to X and said they were able to finally begin disembarking 195
00:54 rescued sea migrants in the southern Italian port of Brindisi after more than two days
00:59 of sailing in rough seas.
01:01 This comes as the Italian government has adopted a policy that effectively assigns faraway
01:05 ports to charity ships rather than letting them disembark rescued migrants in nearer
01:10 Lampedusa or Sicily in a bid to spread arrivals across the country.
01:14 The decision has since been criticised by NGOs who said that it increases their navigation
01:19 costs, prolongs the misery of survivors and reduces the amount of time charity ships can
01:23 patrol the areas where shipwrecks are more common.
01:26 As per reports, over 2,000 people arrived in Lampedusa in the last few days after being
01:30 rescued at sea by Italian patrol boats and NGO groups.
01:34 Italy is experiencing a sharp increase in sea migration, with almost 92,000 arrivals
01:39 recorded so far this year, according to Interior Ministry data last updated on Friday, compared
01:45 with more than 42,600 in the same period in 2022.
01:49 The UN agency, the International Organization for Migration, said around 28 people were
01:54 reported lost at sea by survivors on one boat, while three were reported missing from the
01:58 second after both Bricati island boats went down in stormy weather on Saturday.
02:03 The shipwrecks have since prompted Italian authorities in Agrigento or the nearby island
02:07 of Sicily to launch an investigation.
02:10 Agrigento's chief of police, Emanuele Rettifari, said that the traffickers would have known
02:15 rough seas were forecasted in the region.
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