2024-06-21 10:06:11
The Mediterranean Sea witnessed a brand new tragedy, as two unlawful immigrant ships sank off the southern coast of Italy, ensuing within the loss of life of at the very least 11 individuals and the lack of greater than 60 others, together with 26 youngsters.
Based on Reuters, the German reduction group RESQSHIP reported {that a} picket ship sank off the Italian coast, and 51 individuals have been rescued, together with two unconscious individuals, whereas 10 our bodies have been discovered trapped contained in the ship.
The United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees, the Worldwide Group for Migration and the United Nations Kids’s Company UNICEF indicated in a joint assertion that the ship departed from Libya and carried on board migrants from Syria, Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Whereas the primary ship sank off the Italian coast of Lampedusa, worldwide companies introduced the sinking of a second ship coming from Turkey, about 200 kilometers east of the Italian area of Calabria.
Companies reported that 64 individuals have been lacking at sea, whereas 11 individuals have been rescued by the Italian Coast Guard, together with the physique of a girl.
UN companies additionally referred to as on European Union governments to accentuate search and rescue efforts within the Mediterranean and broaden authorized and protected migration channels, in order that migrants don’t have to “danger their lives at sea.”
Supply: Companies
2024-06-21 10:06:11