Italian Coast Guard recovers the bodies of six immigrants who died in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean
Milan (AP) – The Italian Coast Guard has recovered six bodies and is searching for up to 40 immigrants from rubber tins (rubber tins) in the central Mediterranean of Tunisia.
On Tuesday, 10 other people, including four women, were rescued and taken to the southernmost island of Lampedusa, where they were cared for by UNHCR.
The survivors said about 56 people were in the rubber boats when it departed from Tunisian port SFAX on Monday night.
A few hours after departure, the boat began to deflate. UNHCR said the people on board were from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Mali.
UN lost immigration programs discard the number of dead and the number of dead in danger Central Mediterranean From 2014 to 2024, more than 24,506, many of whom died at sea. The project said the number could be even bigger, as many deaths were unrecorded, witnessing so-called ghost ships, none of them boarded, while the remains of the remains were washed on the Libyan shore, which had nothing to do with any known shipwreck.
