US EditionItalian Coast Guard Finds 19 Migrants Dead and Rescues 58 From Dinghy Off Lampedusa
Officials said the migrants likely died of hypothermia as rescuers battled waves up to 7 meters and rough weather in the Mediterranean.
- On Tuesday night, the Italian coast guard rescued 58 migrants and recovered 19 bodies from a dinghy in distress about 80 nautical miles from Lampedusa, bringing survivors to the island after a 10-hour trip.
- Amid rough weather, the Italian coast guard operated in the Libyan search and rescue area where coast guard spokesperson Roberto Arrigo said sea conditions were "pretty extreme," with waves of more than 6-7 meters.
- Arrigo noted the migrants likely departed from Libya and victims probably died of hypothermia, though the coast guard was the only unit able to intervene in the area.
- Lampedusa remains the primary entry point to Europe for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa, with most deaths attributed to small boats departing from Tunisia and Libya.
- In August last year, the most recent deadly shipwreck off Lampedusa occurred when a boat carrying nearly 100 migrants capsized in international waters, killing at least 26 people.
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58 people were found alive and transported to Italy.
In the Mediterranean between Italy and Libya, 19 migrants were found dead in a boat. Probably they died of hypothermia. 19 migrants were also killed in front of the Turkish seaside resort Bodrum.
Italy's Coast Guard has recovered 19 corpses after capping a boat with refugees, 58 migrants have been rescued. According to Sea-Watch, over a hundred people have died in the Mediterranean in recent days.
The Italian Coast Guard recovered in the early morning of Wednesday the bodies of 19 migrants who were aboard a drifting boat off the coast of the island of Lampedusa. After a long rescue operation, complicated by the adverse weather of these days in the Mediterranean, the Coast Guard have managed to rescue about 60 people who were traveling in the same boat, five of them in serious condition.
Italy recovers 19 bodies from migrant boat, survivors taken to Lampedusa
Italy's coast guard recovered the bodies of 19 migrants and rescued 58 survivors from a boat that broke down while trying to cross to Europe from Libya, rescue officials and migrant rescue charities said on Wednesday.
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