ROME — At least 59 people died, including 12 children, when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants to Europe crashed against rocks near the southern Italian…
The vessel, which sailed from Turkey and was carrying people from Afghanistan, Iran and several other countries, sank in rough seas before dawn near Steccato di Cutro, a seaside resort on the eastern coast of Calabria.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The vessel set sail from the western Turkish port of Izmir about four days ago and was spotted about 74 km off the Italian coast late on Saturday by a plane operated by European Union border agency Frontex, Italian police said. His voice cracking with emotion, Cutro’s mayor, Antonio Ceraso, told the SkyTG24 news channel that he had seen “a spectacle that you would never want to see in your life … a gruesome sight … that stays with you for all your life.”One survivor was arrested on migrant trafficking charges, the Guardia di Finanza customs police said.
However, the coast off Calabria has not been patrolled by NGO ships, which operate in the waters south of Sicily. That suggests they would have been unlikely to intercept the shipwrecked migrants regardless of Meloni’s crackdown. Flavio Di Giacomo also called for the opening of “more regular migration channels” to Europe, and action to address what he said were the multiple causes pushing people to try the sea crossings.
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