Continuous landings in Lampedusa where 343 migrants arrived in 24 hours. 180 landed
during the night on board three boats rescued by the coast guard and the financial police. Two would sail from Sfax, in Tunisia, and one from Tadjoura, Libya. On board groups of 50 (between
including 8 women and 2 minors), 78 (5 women and 8 minors) and 52 (8 women and 4 minors) who declared they were originally from Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Over 70 people then landed in the morning while yesterday, on the island, there were 6 landings for a total of 163 people. There are currently 326 guests at the hotspot. And the 11 bodies recovered by the Geo Barents of Doctors Without Borders yesterday and transferred to a coast guard unit were sent to the Pelagie island.
11 bodies recovered yesterday from Geo Barents
“Yesterday the Geo Barents, after having carried out two rescue operations, recovered 11 corpses which had probably been at sea for many days, in an advanced state of decomposition, including some women” announced Fulvia Conte, rescue coordinator of Doctors Without borders on board the Geo Barents, bound for Genoa with 165 migrants saved in two operations. The bodies were instead transferred to a coast guard patrol boat headed to Lampedusa. “Those eleven deaths are victims of a shipwreck about which absolutely nothing is known – he adds – as in many other cases involving thousands of people, a consequence of political choices on what are the borders of Europe and the lack of safe passages to escape conditions of war, poverty, detention and the situation in Libya that we all know.”
