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Lampedusa, the boat overturns during the rescue: 8 women drowned, one was pregnant. “Children among the missing”

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Two Coast Guard patrol boats had just arrived, in a stretch of sea between Lampedusa and Lampione, the waves overturned the migrants’ boat. Eight women drowned, one was pregnant. Forty-six migrants were saved thanks also to the intervention of another patrol boat, from the Guardia di Finanza. But there are ten missing and some of them are said to be children, so the survivors said.

A dramatic shipwreck occurred tonight about 5 miles off Lampedusa. The Agrigento prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio has opened a file against unknown persons, due to shipwreck. Now, the bodies and the survivors are on the Favaloro pier. They are all sub-Saharan migrants, they left Tunisia. The investigation of the Agrigento prosecutor’s office aims to identify the smugglers of the last trip that ended in tragedy and the basemen in North Africa. The mayor of Lampedusa, Totò Martello, asks for a meeting with President Draghi: “This umpteenth tragedy in the Mediterranean is heartbreaking, what else must happen to make Italy and Europe understand that we cannot go on like this”. The parish priest Don Carmelo La Magra writes on Facebook: “Once again death returns and disturb the carefree summer of the Mediterranean. While one part of the world discusses how to go on vacation, another part tries to survive and often fails ”.

It was a night of landings. 256 migrants arrived, starting at 3.30, with four different boats. Three boats were rescued offshore, the fourth – with 6 Tunisians on board – managed to arrive, at around 7, directly in port. Also yesterday there were 4 landings on the island with a total of 136 people. The first 120 migrants, of various nationalities, were intercepted about 14 miles south of the island: they were on an 8-meter boat. The soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza transhipped them and left the “cart” adrift.

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At 6.30 the 30 migrants who had been intercepted 12 miles by the Port Authority patrol boat Cp309 arrived at the Favarolo pier and shortly afterwards another 100 arrived. a maximum capacity planned for 250 people. In the first reception center, identification procedures have been started for all new arrivals who are also subjected to a rapid anti-Covid swab by the health professionals. Essential steps coordinated by the State Police in order to plan – and the Prefecture of Agrigento is already at work – transfers either to the mainland or to quarantine ships.

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