International Courant
No less than 11 folks have died and greater than 60 are lacking following two shipwrecks off the coast of southern Italy, rescuers say.
German charity RESQSHIP mentioned it rescued 51 folks from a sinking picket boat on Monday and located 10 our bodies trapped on the decrease deck close to the island of Lampedusa.
In a separate incident on the identical day, greater than 60 folks had been reported lacking, 26 of whom had been believed to be youngsters, Docs With out Borders mentioned.
The boats had been carrying migrants who had left from Libya and Turkey, UN companies mentioned.
Survivors of the shipwreck close to Lampedusa had been handed over to the Italian coast guard on Monday morning and introduced ashore, whereas the deceased had been towed to the island, in keeping with RESQSHIP.
The boat had left Libya and was carrying migrants from Syria, Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the UN refugee company UNHCR, the Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM) and the UN youngsters’s company UNICEF mentioned in a joint assertion.
The opposite shipwreck was positioned about 125 miles (200 kilometers) off the coast of Calabria in southern Italy, the companies mentioned.
One of many 12 surviving folks died after disembarking, the Italian coast guard mentioned.
Shakilla Mohammadi of Docs With out Borders mentioned she had heard from survivors that 66 folks had been lacking, together with at the least 26 youngsters, some as younger as a couple of months previous.
“It’s believed that total households from Afghanistan are useless. They left Turkey eight days in the past and took water for 3 or 4 days. They advised us that they had no life jackets and that some ships didn’t cease to assist them,” she mentioned in a speech. rack.
The Mediterranean Sea is the deadliest recognized migration route on this planet.
Greater than 23,500 migrants have died or gone lacking within the waters since 2014, in keeping with UN information.
