Tragic news in the night, the Port Authority has hooked up a small boat bound for Lampedusa with on board 36 Guests including 9 women and 2 minors.
It seems they started from Ivory Coast aboard a miserable small boat in what is called "The crossing of hope”With adults and children who even cross thousands of kilometers to escape wars and famines.
The sad discovery of the military: a 20-day-old baby died on board
To aggravate the already dramatic picture, bad news was added, at the time of the coupling and rescue the military found the body of a newborn, a child of only 20 days who died on board.
The Favarolo medical staff carried out an inspection on the child's body, finding a correspondence between the mother's statement and what happened.
Apparently the child suffered from breathing problems and that, therefore, the crossing had been too much effort for his fragile little body.
The cause of death, according to the medical staff, is in fact to be traced back to severe hypothermia. Totally absent signs of external violence, therefore any third party liability has been excluded.
The woman appears to have come from tunisia, precisely from Mahres, a town on the east coast.
No funeral, burial planned
The authorization has been issued for the burial of the corpse by the Prosecutor of Agrigento, no funeral as the mother has already been transferred to the temporary hotspot of Imbriacola.
A night of intense landings, with 118 people saved
Three boats in total rescued by the harbor master's office, for a total of 118 Guests recovered only during the night, which add up to the numerous landings of the day with a total of 522 people landed in a single day.
People fleeing from many countries, in particular:
- Ivory Coast
- Burkina Faso
- Guinea
- Cameroon
- Nigeria
- tunisia
The mayor of Lampedusa writes to President Meloni
A very excited letter from the mayor of Lampedusa Filippo Mannino, who asks in a loud voice a meeting with the Minister of the Interior He cried to face the humanitarian drama.
It is a constant receiving calls from the police to inform me that there are corpses. It seems to me that I am witnessing a war bulletin and what worries me is that it is becoming a daily occurrence, in the indifference of Europe. It is hard to work in these conditions, first of all humanly and secondly because our municipality cannot bear this burden, also due to the lack of human, instrumental and financial resources.
Philip Mannino
Landings that heat up the tension after the question of the Ocean King, now directed towards the coasts of Corsica with on board 234 migrants.
