Tuesday, April 14, 2015

400 migrants die as boat capsizes off Libya

About 400 migrants are reported to have died at the weekend when their boat capsized on the way from Libya to Italy.
The Save the Children charity cited survivors who were rescued from another boat and brought to an Italian port.

The charity said "many young men, probably minors" were among the victims.

It is the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean where the death toll from shipwrecks has surged this year.

More than 500 people have been killed trying to cross the Mediterranean from Africa, which is up sharply from 47 in the same period of 2014.

The number of boats carrying migrants aiming to reach the EU from Africa has picked up in recent weeks as fine spring weather makes the passage safer.

In February, more than 300 drowned when attempting the crossing in cold weather and rough seas.

Save the Children and other humanitarian organisations have called for the European Union to bolster its sea rescue operations before the migrant flows soar as they usually do in the summer months.

Yesterday, 2,851 migrants were saved in rescue operations in the Mediterranean, the Italian coastguard said, adding to at least nine who died and 5,629 who were saved over the weekend.

2 comments :

  1. About 400 migrants have drowned as they were trying to cross the Mediterranean to get from Libya to Italy, the charity Save the Children's press officer told Sputnik Tuesday citing surviving migrants who were saved by the Italian Coast Guard...

    “What we know at the moment…. What the migrants told us… is that about 400 people lost their lives,” the press officer said.

    The Save the Children spokeswoman could not specify the nationalities of the victims............http://sptnkne.ws/d2S
    14/4/15

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  2. Sbarchi, 400 morti in naufragio nel Mediterraneo...

    La testimonianza dei reduci arrivati ieri sulle coste calabresi. Il sostegno della UE: Italia sotto pressione.

    Sarebbero 400 le vittime di un naufragio avvenuto a 80 miglia dalle coste libiche nella notte tra lunedì e martedì scorso. A riferirlo i migranti tratti in salvo e sbarcati sulla nave Orione nella giornata di ieri al porto di Reggio Calabria. Sarebbero state oltre mille, quasi tutti di provenienza subsahariana, le persone partite dalle coste africane, ma solo 670 hanno raggiunto ieri l'Italia. Secondo quanto riferito dai superstiti, dopo 1 giorno di navigazione la carretta del mare che trasportava i migranti si è rovesciata, prima di essere intercettata dalla Guardia Costiera italiana che è riuscita a trarli in salvo. Tra le vittime ci sarebbero molte donne e bambini, come riferito dall'organizzazione umanitaria Save The Children. Solo in questi ultimi 4 giorni hanno raggiunto le coste italiane quasi 9mila le persone, di cui 500 bambini, di cui moltissimi non accompagnati.........http://sptnkne.ws/d7X
    15/4/15

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