About sixty migrants are missing, the injured are stable
The search continues for the migrants – perhaps around sixty, including 26 children according to the survivors’ story – who fell into the sea yesterday 120 miles from the coast of Calabria after the sailing boat on which they were traveling sank, apparently after an explosion at edge.
At the moment, however, neither survivors nor bodies have been identified.
The patrol boats of the Roccella Ionica Coast Guard operated until this morning and have recently returned to port to refuel.
The searches continue with air and naval means and are extending beyond the place where the half-sunken boat is still visible.
The currents and winds that blow in the area, in fact, could have dragged any survivors or the bodies of the victims for miles.
Meanwhile, the conditions of the eleven survivors recovered by a French ship are stationary – a twelfth person, a woman, died during the journey – and then taken to the port of Roccella by Coast Guard patrol boats.
Currently nine of them are hospitalized in the hospitals of Polistena, Locri and Soverato (Catanzaro) for wounds of various kinds and burns probably due to the explosion on board.
However, none of them would be in danger of their lives. Among them was also a 10-year-old girl. The two migrants who remained unharmed are housed in the tensile structure set up in the port for the first reception.
