At least 33 individuals have died in an accident involving a ship with migrants onboard off the southern Italian coast, media stories confirmed Sunday.
The our bodies had been found on the seashore in Cutro within the province of Crotone in Calabria and within the sea, the Italian news company ANSA reported on Sunday morning, citing the police.
The variety of victims might nonetheless rise considerably as a result of many our bodies haven’t but been recovered from the ocean, the report stated.
According to preliminary data, the migrants had been on a fishing boat, which broke aside in heavy seas, after which among the individuals onboard drowned.
There was no data on the nationality of the victims or their port of departure.
About 50 survivors had been additionally found on the seashore, ANSA reported. They had been additionally on the boat that crashed.
“At the moment there are various victims,” Luca Cari, a spokesperson for the firefighters concerned within the rescue effort stated with out specifying the variety of lifeless as rescue efforts had been nonetheless underway.
Details in regards to the nationalities of the migrants weren’t instantly supplied within the stories both.
It was not initially clear the place the boat had set out from, however migrant vessels arriving in Calabria normally depart from Turkish or Egyptian shores.
Many of those boats attain distant stretches of Italy’s lengthy southern shoreline unaided by the coast guard or humanitarian rescue vessels.
Each yr many individuals make the harmful crossing from Northern Africa by way of the Mediterranean to the European Union (EU), heading for Italy and Malta, hoping for a greater life in Europe.
The boats are sometimes overcrowded and unsafe, that means there are sometimes critical accidents.
According to the Italian Interior Ministry, 13,067 migrants have entered the nation by sea this yr as much as and together with Thursday, excess of twice as many as in the identical interval final yr, when there have been 5,273.
A brand new legislation of the right-wing authorities of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, which was handed by the Senate final week, has made the work of civilian sea rescuers harder. The majority of migrants, nonetheless, arrive in Italy on their very own ships and boats.
According to the newest knowledge, practically 1 million individuals sought asylum within the EU in 2022, the best since 2016 and surging 50% over 2021.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
