Photo: APPeople who started from sub-Saharan African countries waited, stuck on a cliff, for help all night
After two shipwrecks that occurred in the night between Saturday and Sunday not far from the Italian island of Lampedusa, 30 people are still missing, while 57 have been rescued. A woman and her one-year-old baby died after being rescued. Among the survivors were two pregnant women. Italian media reports.
Patrol boats of the Italian Coast Guard, helicopters and firefighters participated in the rescue operation. The waves were 4,5 meters high, making it difficult for patrol boats to get close. They waited for a whole day for the waves to calm down, but that didn't happen.
After the accident, it was determined that the migrants were from Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Senegal. They headed to the Tunisian port city of Sfax, which is located about 130 kilometers from Lampedusa. According to their statements, there were 48 of them in the first boat, and 42 in the second.
The crossing from the Mediterranean to Europe is considered the deadliest in the world.
"Many bodies are found at sea, which suggests that there are many shipwrecks that we never hear about," International Organization for Migration spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo said.
Bad weather creating huge waves and poor quality boats are hampering rescue operations, the Coast Guard has warned. On the other hand, the government of Đorđe Meloni does not help in overcoming these problems. They implement a policy that forces rescue ships to dock in remote ports, rather than allowing them to disembark rescued migrants in Lampedusa or Sicily.
Charities pointed this out and warned that such a law would increase their navigation costs and reduce the time patrol boats could patrol areas of the Mediterranean where such disasters are common.
Italy's interior ministry said sea migration figures had doubled to 92.000 this year compared to 42.600 last year.
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