Maxi landing of migrants in the night in Lampedusa.
13 boats with 620 people on board were rescued by the Captaincy and the Financial Police using patrol boats.
Yesterday, there were 11 landings on the island, 4 of which just before midnight, with 408 people. There are currently 1,087 migrants at the Imbriacola district hotspot. Yesterday evening, at the disposal of the prefecture of Agrigento, 380 were embarked on the ferry that has just arrived in Porto Empedocle.
Instead, there is an alarm over a small boat that has sunk. A 15-month-old girl is missing. According to what the mother, who is at the hotspot, said, she was unable to hold her little daughter close to her, who was swallowed up by the waters. They left Sfax last Thursday, there were 45 of them in total and they would have paid a thousand euros each for the crossing.
(Unioneonline/ss)
