Seven bodies were found by the Italian Coast Guard in the waters near the island of Malta, on a day when local authorities confirmed that more than 2,700 migrants had reached the southern Italian coast in the last 24 hours. In particular, several thousand people have gone out on the island of Lampedusa alone, where the reservoirs are overflowing. The same body reported that ten emigrants were saved from those wrecks for the local press.
Italy and Malta have seen how the number of ships sailing through the Mediterranean has increased this weekend. On the southern coast of the Tunisian sea, the departure of more than 70 boats in mid-tide has not stopped for weeks, he claimed.
In Lampedusa, this morning, 290 migrants arrived in seven boats, which were received by the NGO Louise Michel and the economic guardians of the coast guard.
Between Friday and Saturday more than 1,700 people arrived on the island in 43 different ports that saturated the reception capacity of the shelters, with the capture of 400, the governorate of Agrigento announced the requested transfer of the group of migrants to another port.
In the peninsular territory, in the region of Calabria, another 500 migrants arrived on Friday afternoon, including in Crotone, the town where 89 people died before the wreck.
Doctors without borders
For its part, the authorities of the Italian port of Bari (southern) assigned the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) ship, the Geo Barenta, rescued a few hours this past Friday, with 190 migrants in the central Mediterranean.
And another ship, Life Support of NGO Emergency, rescued 78 people sailing in a rubber boat and in which there were 28 unaccompanied minors and pregnant women.
So far this year, more than 20,000 immigrants have landed on the Italian coast, more than triple the 6,500 in the same period in 2022, according to official data.
