Boat travelling from north Africa capsized near tiny Italian island, with all other passengers rescued
A five-month-old boy has drowned during a rescue operation off the Italian island of Lampedusa after a boat carrying people from northThe tragedy occurred as migrant landings on Lampedusa surged, leaving the small island struggling to cope. About 1,850 people landed on Wednesday, bringing the total number of migrants in Lampedusa to more than 6,700, the Ansa news agency said.
On current trends, arrivals are near the peak recorded in 2016, when about 181,500 people arrived in Italy by sea. Between January and August that year, there were about 115,000 landings, compared with 114,526 in the same period in 2023. Giovanni Di Leo, the chief prosecutor for Agrigento, the province that includes Lampedusa, said 112 vessels had arrived on Tuesday, carrying more than 5,000 people, nearly double the previous record of 63 boats registered on one day last month.
“What is happening in Lampedusa is that for the first time the Tunisian route has become so busy … and it is difficult to manage compared to the Libyan route,” said Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesperson for the UN’s International Organisation forThe much shorter trip from Tunisia was prompting more attempts to cross, especially with smaller vessels, making rescue operations more complicated, Di Giacomo said.
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