A small boat sank last night in Maltese SAR waters, about 42 miles from the island of Lampedusa. Thirty-seven, including 7 women, the migrants rescued by the NGO ship Nadir and three fishing boats, and then transferred to the Coast Guard patrol boat.

The appeal would miss a man, originally from Burkina Faso, brother of one of the survivors who arrived with the other 36, in Lampedusa. The man, believed missing, probably drowned after the cart overturned.

The tragedy around 19 p.m. Two hours later the survivors were transferred to the Coast Guard unit, and then arrived at one o'clock in the night at Favarolo pier.

The survivors - originally from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sudan and the Comoros Islands - reported leaving Sfax, Tunisia, at 23pm on Thursday and paying 2,<> Tunisian dinars.

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Migrants landing in Lampedusa - archive image

Also yesterday, off Lampedusa, another small boat had overturned: 46 had been rescued and the body of a woman who drowned had been recovered. Also yesterday, the corpse of a man, in an advanced state of decomposition, arrived on the island, who was considered one of the 17 missing in the double shipwreck that occurred on Monday 24 April.