About fifty migrants are missing due to the capsizing of the sailing boat on which they were travelling, about a hundred miles from the coast of Calabria. A merchant vessel came to the rescue of the vessel and subsequently transferred the 12 surviving migrants to a Coast Guard unit which then landed in Roccella Ionica.
The body of a woman who died after falling into the sea also arrived in port.
Searches have now been launched for the missing people, but none have been recovered.
(Unioneonline)
