64 missing after migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean
Italian coast guard said on Monday they were looking for missing migrants following a shipwreck in the Mediterranean sea.The UN Refugee agency UNHCR, the International Organization for Migration and UN children's agency UNICEF said in a joint statement that the shipwreck took place about 200 km east of the Italian region of Calabria, as a boat that had set off from Turkey eight days earlier caught fire and overturned.
They said 64 people were missing at sea, while 11 were rescued and taken ashore to the Calabrian town of Roccella Ionica by the Italian coast guard, along with the body of a woman.The agencies and the German aid group RESQSHIP said eleven migrants died in a second shipwreck.RESQSHIP, which operates the Nadir rescue ship, said it picked up 51 people from a sinking wooden boat, including two who were unconscious, and found 10 bodies trapped in the lower deck of the vessel.
Missing After Migrant Shipwreck In The Mediterranean
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