Among those missing from the capsized vessel are seven women and a minor. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ROME - More than 40 people are missing after a migrant boat capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the UN said.
The vessel left from Sfax in Tunisia and was carrying 46 migrants from Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast, Mr Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesman for the UN migration agency IOM, said Friday. “A coordinated and shared rescue mechanism at sea between states is now also a matter of conscience.”“We are therefore not aware of certain shipwrecks,” he said, calling for “patrols of European ships to monitor the Tunisian route as well as the Libyan route, otherwise we will witness a disaster this summer.”
Last year, more than 46,000 people arrived there, out of a total of 105,000 in Italy, according to the UNHCR.Migrant boat shipwrecks have increased in recent months, while the number of migrants entering the EU via the central Mediterranean “more than doubled” in 2023 compared to the same period last year, according to the European border agency Frontex in mid-June.
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