Three dead among migrants arriving in Lampedusa, two are children: killed by hunger and thirst
The Mediterranean is a cemetery
The children were 2 years old, the man 30. There is also a missing person. In total, about 300 people landed on the Sicilian island
The 57 migrants , plus 3 dead bodies , rescued by the NGO ship Nadir yesterday afternoon, landed in Lampedusa during the night. The group includes 13 women and 2 minors claiming to be from Gambia, Ghana, Niger, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Togo. Late yesterday evening, the military personnel of the coast guard patrol boat CP 312 took care of a medical evacuation of 6 migrants, including 3 women and 2 minors from Ghana and Nigeria, who were ill. After saving the group, the NGO volunteers immediately noticed, and launched an SOS, that the six had burns and were debilitated. The migrants who arrived at the Favarolo dock after midnight were taken to the outpatient clinic.
Two children and a 30-year-old died of hunger and thirst among the 57 migrants rescued and landed in LampedusaThe bodies landed from the NGO ship Nadir , at the commercial dock of Lampedusa, are of a man of about 30 years old and two children of about 2 years old . The bodies have already been taken to the mortuary of the cemetery of Cala Pisana where they will undergo a corpse inspection: they would have died of hunger and thirst since, apparently, the dinghy that set sail from Libya remained adrift for several days, until yesterday afternoon after the report of the Frontex asset it was intercepted by the crew of the sailing ship by the German non-governmental organization ResQship .
In total, around 300 people landed on the Sicilian islandThere is also a missing person in addition to the 57 migrants rescued and the 3 bodies recovered by the NGO Nadir, which reached Lampedusa . According to the first accounts of the survivors, a man during the crossing threw himself into the water to seek relief, perhaps he had burns caused by contact with the fuel, and due to the rough sea he was unable to get back on the dinghy. The man dived into the sea yesterday morning, in the Maltese SAR area. Fifty-five migrants (2 are minors and have not been interviewed) reported having boarded, paying 1,500 dollars each , the 8-meter dinghy, which left from Zawia , in Libya , on Wednesday night.
Migrants from Africa and AsiaThree landings, with a total of 236 migrants (in addition to the 57 rescued by the NGO Nadir), during the night in Lampedusa . The three boats, with women and minors on board, were rescued by the coast guard patrol boats CP312 and CP319 and a vessel from the Frontex unit. On the first 12-meter boat there were 82 Afghans, Bangladeshis, Egyptians, Eritreans and Sudanese; on the second there were 49 (5 women and 1 minor) Egyptians, Eritreans, Ethiopians and Sudanese and on the third 105 people (16 women and 9 minors) Egyptians, Eritreans, Ethiopians, Somalis and Sudanese.
Departures from Libya cost an average of 3 thousand euros per personThe migrants reported that they left from Sabratha and Zawiya in Libya after paying between 2,500 and 5,000 dollars each . All of them, as well as the 57 rescued by the NGO Nadir , were taken to the hotspot in Contrada Imbriacola where there are currently 470 guests. The transfer of 166 migrants, who disembarked in recent days, is underway to the port where they will be embarked on the scheduled ferry that will arrive in Porto Empedocle in the evening.
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