The baby’s tragic death comes after it emerged that a woman migrant was decapitated in a horrific accident as a boat carrying 500 people started to sink in the Med on Thursday.
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About 45 other people died in another boat that took in water on Friday.
One survivor from Eritrea described the moment when the boat began to sink.
That motorless boat and being tugged by another vessel.
The U.N. refugee agency says survivors’ accounts indicate that shipwrecks and capsized boats have claimed at least 880 lives over the last week in the Mediterranean. “We used our hands, plastic glasses”.
“We save as many lives as possible, knowing that there is no invasion”, Renzi said in a weekly emailed newsletter. It began to flood the boat, and those below deck had no chance.
There is no evidence of a massive movement of Syrian and other Middle Eastern refugees trying to cross to Italy from Libya after the closure of Balkan route and the EU’s controversial deal with Turkey, which effectively brought sea crossings to Greece to a halt. Rescuers saved around 13,000 people from the sea last week.
According to an NDTV report, Carlotta Sami, UNHCR spokeswoman, tweeted, “We’ll never know the exact number, we’ll never know their identity, but survivors tell that over 500 human beings died”.
Hundreds drowned between Wednesday and Friday when their boats all overturned off southern Italy, according to the United Nations refugee agency.
About 25 people from the capsized boat managed to reach the first boat and survive, 79 others were rescued by global patrol boats and 15 bodies were recovered. Many said they were previously held for four to six weeks in houses in Libya and were fed only once a day. After a single shipwreck off Libya killed more than 700 people in April 2015, the European Union boosted funding for search and rescue operations in the central Mediterranean, which have largely been Italy’s burden.
Sea-Watch collected about 25 other bodies, including another child, according to testimony from the crew.
Although there is a surge this week, as of Friday 40,660 arrivals had been counted, a mere 2 percent fewer migrants than the same time past year, Italy’s Interior Ministry stated. “What happens is as soon as they depart from shore they call for rescuers and then rescue services come and rescue them”, Spindler said.
The baby was pulled from the sea on Friday after a wooden boat capsized.
It is not yet known exactly how many were on board, but the rubber boats normally carry about 300.
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The arrivals, this week, included Eritreans, Sudanese, Nigerians and many other West Africans, according to the agencies, which said the boats that arrived this week possibly left from Sabratha in Libya.
