68 SharesWOMEN and children dead after new migrant boat disasterThe Italian coastguard and Italian police rescued 22 survivors and recovered the bodies of 13 people, all women from Western Africa, after a boat carrying about 50 migrants overturned Sunday night a few miles off the coast of Lampedusa. The Italian coastguard confirmed yesterday (Monday) it had recovered the bodies of 13 women, some of them pregnant. -- Advertisement --Around a dozen people, reportedly including eight children and other pregnant women, are still missing, the coastguard said. The NGO Open Arms said it saved 40 people from a different boat overnight, including a young boy and a newborn. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said that at least 19,000 migrants have drowned or gone missing while making the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe since 2016.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 08, 2019 05:30 UTC