New shipwreck off Lampedusa. A 7-meter boat sank last night, in the Italian SAR area. 46 migrants, including seven minors and 13 women, rescued by soldiers of the Coast Guard patrol boat CP319. However, there would also be three missing, including the mother of a newborn. Searches are underway in the open sea.
The survivors, originally from Guinea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Gambia, were disembarked shortly before midnight and a half at the Favarolo pier in Lampedusa. They said they left Sfax, Tunisia, at 21pm last Friday and paid 2,<> dinars for the crossing.
6 landings with 299 migrants, over 2,200 at the hotspot in Lampedusa
There is no respite in Lampedusa, where for days, thanks to favorable weather conditions, landings follow one another. There were 299, rescued while they were on board 6 different boats, migrants disembarked (including the 46 shipwrecked) during the night and until dawn in Lampedusa where yesterday there were 12 landings with a total of 611 people.
On the boats hooked during the night there were groups of 48 (3 women and 2 minors), 46 (13 women and 7 minors), 42 (10 women and 8 minors), 45 (6 women and 2 minors), 36 (9 women and 3 minors) and 82 (8 women). The first 5 boats departed from Sfax in Tunisia, while the last from Sabratah in Libya.
All were taken to the hotspot of contrada Imbriacola where at dawn there were 2,242 guests compared to just under 400 places available. Structure that remains overcrowded despite the fact that in the last two days, with scheduled ferries, ships and military planes, a thousand people are transferred daily.