At least 11 individuals died and dozens stay lacking after two ships wrecked within the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, U.N. businesses confirmed.
Eleven individuals had been rescued however 64 extra stay lacking after a ship wrecked about 200 kilometers (125 miles) off Calabria on Italy’s southern coast.
The boat had reportedly set off from Türkiye eight days earlier, however caught fireplace and overturned, the U.N. businesses stated, citing survivors.
The search-and-rescue operation began following a mayday name by a French boat, the Italian coast guard stated in an announcement.
The boat was crusing in a border space the place Greece and Italy conduct search-and-rescue operations.
The survivors and other people nonetheless lacking at sea got here from Iran, Syria and Iraq, the U.N. businesses stated.
The Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Center instantly diverted two service provider vessels crusing close by to the scene of the rescue. Assets from the European border and coast guard company Frontex additionally helped.
The survivors had been dropped at the Calabrian port of Roccella Jonica, the place they had been disembarked and entrusted to the care of medical personnel. One of the 11 rescued migrants died quickly after, the coast guard stated.
In the second shipwreck, rescue staff evacuated dozens of suspected migrants however discovered 10 our bodies trapped under the deck of a wood boat off Italy’s tiny Lampedusa island, the German support group Resqship wrote Monday on the X social media platform.
The crew aboard Resqship’s boat, the Nadir, discovered 61 individuals on the wood boat, which was filled with water.
“Our crew was able to evacuate 51 people, two of whom were unconscious,” it added. “The 10 dead were in the flooded lower deck of the boat.”
Source: www.dailysabah.com