Newborn baby among 27 killed in Mediterranean migrant boat disaster | World | News
At least 27 people, including a newborn baby, died after a boat carrying about 100 immigrants on the coast of Italy.
The tragedy occurred on Wednesday, 14 miles south of Lampedusa Island, and the quest still continuing the night.
According to the local media, the six bodies under the alabora boat have already been rescued. The news comes as a ‘Pala’ in which the shadow house secretary Chris Philp chased him from an immigrant camp.
Sixty survivors Filippo UNGARO, the UNHMYK spokesman in Italy, said that Lampedusa was brought to a center.
When he left Libya on Tuesday evening, it seems that there were 92 to 97 immigrants on the boat.
How many people died?
Coast Guard said in a statement that the death fee was 27 years old, but still “temporary and updated”.
Based on Survivor accounts, the immigrants left the shores of Tripoli on two boats.
However, when one of the two veins began to receive water, all passengers were transferred to the other boat made of fiberglast – this was due to overloading.
‘Deep pain’
It was not known how long the immigrants have been at sea. Lampedusa Mayor Filippo Mannino said the shipwreck was “probably dawn”.
According to the UN refugee agency, 675 immigrants have died by passing the dangerous Central Mediterranean without counting the latest sinking.
“A deep pain on the wreckage of the Lampedusa coast, which the UNHMMYK helped survived,” Ungaro said, “Unaro X.
How do immigrants reach Italy?
According to the UNHCR, 30,060 refugees and immigrants in the first six months of 2025 came to Italy by sea with a 16 percent increase compared to the same period last year.
Migration from North Africa to Southern Europe is considered one of the most dangerous in the world.
In the last decade, approximately 24,500 people died or disappeared in the Mediterranean crossing.
Most of the deaths were attributed to small boats from the shores of Tunisia and Libya.
In October 2013, the most deadly shipwreck on the coast of Lampedusa, a boat carrying more than 500 immigrants from Eritrea, Somalia and Ghana, burned fire and became alabora and killed at least 368 people.
‘Consider the main reasons for this tragic problem’
The tragedy led to calls for action to address an international crisis.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who made the fight against illegal immigration into the most important priority of the right -wing government, promised to continue to fight “unscrupulous smugglers” by preventing irregular departures on Wednesday and managing migration flows.
“Today’s tragedy, despite a ready and operational international intervention, is not enough, the necessary rescue effort is not sufficient and first of all, it does not deal with the main reasons for this tragic problem,” he warns us. ” He said.
