18 people are missing from the shipwreck in the central Mediterranean. The 22 migrants rescued by the Nadir ship of the German NGO Resqship, who were questioned by the police and who managed to overcome the communication difficulties and the initial reluctance of the survivors, agree on the number – actually 18 – of the drowned. The NGO ship recovered two bodies. Nine women are among the survivors who landed on Lampedusa. They are all originally from Ivory Coast, Guinea, Cameroon and Senegal: They reported that they set sail from Sfax at 3 am yesterday, paid 3,000 Tunisian dinars and traveled on a 7-metre iron barge.
The crew of the ship Nadir – based in Lampedusa – forwarded the information to the authorities and the police are interviewing both the members of the NGO and the survivors to reconstruct what happened. The small boat on which the group was traveling sank. The rescue took place in Maltese Sar waters.
“After an hour of non-stop rescue operations – writes the NGO Resqship on Twitter and then repeated to the police – our crew found about 25 people in the water who had already been there for about 2 hours. The crew managed to recover 22 survivors and 2 deceased”. The bodies are transferred to the mortuary of the Cala Pisana cemetery, where the body of the Nigerian who is believed to have lost his life and a small one had also arrived during the night Sfax urged boat to sail with 38 people on board At the moment there are 13 coffins in the small room of the Lampedusa cemetery.
Another 233 migrants arrived in Lampedusa on six different boats, where landings are now 26 as of midnight for a total of 974 people. On the small boats rescued by Coast Guard patrol boats were groups of 42 people (11 women and 2 minors), 40 (12 women and 2 minors), 40 (13 women and 5 minors), 36 (10 women and 4 minors), 40 (4 women) and 35 (8 women) from Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo and Gambia. The new arrivals were taken to the Imbriacola neighborhood hotspot, where attendance now stands at 1,847, compared to a capacity of just under 400.
Alarm Phone, 400 migrants in danger in the Mediterranean About 400 people in the Mediterranean are at risk, according to Alarm Phone reports in a tweet. “During the night – explains the organization – we received a call from a distressed boat leaving Tobruk, Libya. We informed the authorities but no rescue operation has been confirmed. Don’t put 400 lives at risk: help immediately!”
1,614 migrants are staying in the Lampedusa hotspot which could instead offer space for a maximum of almost 400 people. The first-ever reception facility in the Imbriacola district is again overcrowded after the spate of landings: 17 yesterday with 679 and 20 at the moment with 741. In the morning, 156 people were transferred by ferry, while no transfers are planned for the evening.
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