About 60 migrants drowned on the night of Sunday to Monday to overturn the boat they were traveling from Tunisia towards Lampedusa (Italy), narrated by another group of North Africans who traveled on a barge nearby.
explained that, suddenly, near the Tunisian coast as the barge capsized and most of them could not swim, disappeared into the waters of the Mediterranean, while only five were saved.
The boat departed from Zarzis (Tunisia) on Sunday afternoon and the wreck occurred late Monday, Italian media reported.
other hand, one of the military navy patrols saved during the early morning to 129 immigrants who were within 20 miles of the island Lampedusa, and whose boat began taking on water. Twenty
boats reached the Italian island of Lampedusa since Saturday morning, with 1,623 people aboard, including six women and six children, reported the Port Authority.
Each barge was carrying about 50 people and the Captain expected surge of immigrants continue given the good weather conditions prevailing in the Sicily Channel.
Lampedusa Island, considered by the immigration gateway to Europe, is packed with illegal immigrants following the arrivals of these days and is home to 1,400 people.
A arrived earlier today the island of Lampedusa Rabbits, considered nature reserve, a small boat with 80 immigrants, including two children.
The boat departed from Zarzis (Tunisia) on Sunday afternoon and the wreck occurred late Monday, Italian media reported.
other hand, one of the military navy patrols saved during the early morning to 129 immigrants who were within 20 miles of the island Lampedusa, and whose boat began taking on water. Twenty
boats reached the Italian island of Lampedusa since Saturday morning, with 1,623 people aboard, including six women and six children, reported the Port Authority.
Each barge was carrying about 50 people and the Captain expected surge of immigrants continue given the good weather conditions prevailing in the Sicily Channel.
Lampedusa Island, considered by the immigration gateway to Europe, is packed with illegal immigrants following the arrivals of these days and is home to 1,400 people.
A arrived earlier today the island of Lampedusa Rabbits, considered nature reserve, a small boat with 80 immigrants, including two children.
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