About fifty migrants are missing after the sailing boat they were traveling on capsized about one hundred miles from the coast of Calabria. A merchant ship came to the rescue of the vessel and transferred it later 12 surviving migrants on a unit of the Coast Guard which then landed in Ionic Roccella. The body of a woman who died after falling into the sea also arrived in port. The search for the missing people has now been activated, but, at the moment, none have been recovered. The migrants traveling on board the boat had left a port in Türkiye in recent days. Among the 12 people who arrived in Roccella Ionica there is also a pregnant woman. The Locri Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is coordinating the investigative activity, was informed of what happened.
In the same hours a second rescue took place off the coast of Libya, where the Nadir ship rescued 51 people on board a wooden boat in difficulty. “The rescue came too late for 10 people,” says the NGO ResQship. Two of the rescued people were unconscious and had to be freed with an axe. The 10 dead were on the flooded lower deck of the boat.
Overall, at least 173 people landed on Lampedusa during the night, on board three different boats: 103 people during a first landing, 27 in the second and 43 in the third. The migrants were rescued by the Financial Police and the Coast Guard. They are now located at the hotspot of Imbriacola districtmanaged by the Italian Red Cross, where overall they are 308 The guests. In the morning, a transfer of 133 people is expected from the reception center, by ferry, to Porto Empedocle.
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