The Transalpin authorities announced on Wednesday that they were still looking for up to 40 missing immigrants. The tragic event occurs a day after 10 other people were saved from a boat and transferred to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The Italian Coast Guard recovered six bodies in the central Mediterranean after The shipwreck of a pneumatic boat In the area, as reported by the United Nations Agency for refugees. The Transalpinas authorities announced on Wednesday that they were still looking for up to 40 missing immigrants. The tragic event occurs a day after 10 other people were saved from a boat and transferred to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The survivors were in good physical condition and received psychological attention, according to the Red Cross. The Italian representative of AcnurChiara Cardoletti, he said that a total of 56 people from Cameroon, Guinea, Ivory and Mali were traveling on the boat to Europe. According to sources of Acnur, the pneumatic boat was born from the Tunisian city of Sfax on Monday evening and began to deflate A few hours after crossing.
Saturday, a boat with Syrian refugees moved against the Costa di Cyprus and the authorities of the Mediterranean island indicated that he indicated it They had recovered at least seven bodies. Therefore, they added that two people had been saved and that at least 11 others remained in an unknown position.
The tragic via del Mediterraneo where thousands of people die
Thousands of citizens They die every year trying to cross the Mediterranean in the direction of Europe. The official data is believed to underestimate the real number of victims, since many deaths are not registered. The number of people who died or disappeared at sea between 2014 and 2024 was at least 24,506, according to the United Nations project.
In the United Nations of the United Nations, they underline that in 2024 over 2,200 immigrants died or disappeared in the Mediterranean. So far this year, 8,963 immigrants have arrived in Italyas reported on Wednesday The Transalpine Ministry of Interior. The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, tried to reduce the exit of ships from the African coast through economic agreements with North Africa countries.
Meloni said this week that the agreements reached were responsible A decrease of almost 60% in the number of migrants who arrive in Italy. Last year 66,317 immigrants reached the Italian territory compared to 157,651 of 2023.
“What do these figures mean? They tell us Reduce the results and stop the activity of human traffickers It is the only way to reduce the number of migrants who lose their lives trying to reach Italy and Europe, “said the Italian Prime Minister Tuesday. Meloni’s government was criticized for his decision to open the centers Asylum processing in AlbaniaA measure contested by an Italian court sent to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
