World explorer ship4/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The UN migration agency estimates that some 300 people have died this year, or were missing and presumed dead, after attempting to cross the perilous central Mediterranean route. Some 5,000 people, walking behind a bearer of a cross fashioned from the boat’s wreckage, joined a procession to the beach in Cutro on Saturday, demanding increased efforts to save migrants at sea. Italian prosecutors are investigating whether authorities should have swiftly launched a rescue operation after a patrol plane operated by Frontex, the European Union’s border protection agency, spotted the wooden boat, hours before it broke apart yards from the beach. Police check a fishing boat with some 500 migrants in the southern Italian port of Crotone (AP) The known death toll from the shipwreck climbed to 76 on Saturday after the bodies of two children and an adult were recovered, Italian news agency ANSA reported. The migrants disembarked in Crotone’s port before dawn on Saturday.Ī beach in Cutro, a town south of Crotone, is where survivors and bodies were found on February 26 after a wooden boat, crowded with migrants who had set out from Turkey days earlier, broke apart on a sandbank. Separately, a boat carrying 487 people, intercepted by Italian vessels some 60 nautical miles off Crotone in Calabria on Friday, was aided by two coast guard motorboats and a border police boat. The coast guard said in a statement that overcrowding on two vessels and adverse sea and weather conditions had complicated rescue operations that began on Friday in the Ionian Sea off Calabria.Ī 310ft coast guard vessel took 584 migrants aboard, while two smaller coast guard motorboats took on 379 and then transferred them to an Italian naval vessel, which was headed to Augusta, a port in eastern Sicily, as migrant shelters in Calabria quickly filled up. The influx of sea arrivals came in the face of a crackdown by Italy’s right-wing government on people-smugglers announced only two days earlier. Italian coast guard and navy vessels have ferried hundreds of rescued migrants to shore. ![]()
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