Four shipwrecks in a few hours. 1200 people rescued, 2 dead, 20 missing. In the images of the Coast Guard, the critical moments of one of the last-minute rescues on the route from Tunisia to the Italian coast
Coast guard has rescued 35 boats in the central Mediterranean in a few hours. The balance – always provisional – counts the rescue of about 1,200 people, two corpses recovered and about twenty people missing.
There are at least four registered shipwrecks.
38 people were traveling on one of the sunken 7-metre small boats – originally from Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali and South Sudan. the vessel, according to the stories of the survivors themselves, had already taken on water when at the sight of the Guardia di Finanza patrol boat some of the passengers stood up to try and wave their arms to ask for help. the boat overturned and the occupants all ended up in the water. A 26-year-old woman drowned.
.the dynamics of the fourth shipwreck were similar: the 47 migrants aboard the small boat, including six women and a minor, at the sight of the Open Arms NGO ship began to get agitated, causing the boat to capsize and end up in the water. all were rescued by Open Arms volunteers who then rescued them
disembarked at the commercial pier of Lampedusa.
forty people, including 8 women and 6 minors, were rescued during the night by the Tunisian fishing boat “Mohamed Amine” which carried out the rescue before the arrival of the patrol boat of the Captaincy onto which the group was then transferred.
to shipwreck and sink even a small boat with 45 other people on board. 42 of them, including 5 women and 3 minors, were rescued by the Coast Guard. According to the declarations of the castaways, there would be 3 missing.
other shipwrecks with dozens of dead are also reported by the Libyan and Tunisian authorities.
It is estimated that there are still around 400 refugees at sea.ol
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