tragedy!41 feared dead as migrant boat sinks in mid-Mediterranean
Hangzhou Net Release time: 2023-08-10 20:16
China News Service, August 10 (Xinhua) According to Reuters, Italian authorities and United Nations agencies quoted survivors’ descriptions on the 9th, saying that a migrant boat capsized in the central Mediterranean on the 3rd, and 41 migrants may have been killed.
According to Reuters, the migrant boat set off from the Sfax area of Tunisia on the 3rd, but capsized and sank due to strong waves that night. There were 45 people on board, including three children. Four people have survived so far, and 41 people may have been killed.
The International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Refugee Agency said in a joint statement that the four survivors of the accident, including a 13-year-old boy, a woman and two men, died six days after the accident (local Time 9) arrived in Lampedusa, Italy.
The four survivors found another empty boat at sea and drifted on board for several days without food or drinking water, according to sources. Currently, they are in good condition.
Reuters reports that the central Mediterranean is one of the most dangerous migration routes in the world. According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 22,000 people have died or gone missing in the waters since 2014.
Migrants departing from Tunisia in recent days faced “adverse weather and sea conditions” that made their journey “exceptionally dangerous”, the UN agency said.
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2023-08-10 12:16:00
