The lifeguards have so far found 20 bodies and operations continue, according to the first reports of the Ansa’s newspaper agency. It is believed to have survived between 70 and 80 people.
Filippo Ungaro, from the UN Agency for UNHCR refugees, expressed “deep sadness” due to disaster and said that people could still be led to the sea.
“Deep sadness for who knows which shipwray of Lampeduse, where UNHCR now helps survivors. It seems that 20 bodies seemed to be found,” he wrote the Ungaro on social networks.
The Italian news agency Radicalale reported 97 people on the ship when 22 miles southwest of Lampeduse.
The details remain unclear, but the Organization of Save the Children Italy announced that after the incident seems to have disappeared girl from a year and a half.
RAI Radio 1 reported that between 12 and 17 people were leading as disappeared and that 60 survivors were transported safely on the island.
The ship, which has already overturned, noticed from the air of the Italian financial police plane, stated.
Migrants moving in Italy from North Africa often pass in missing or crowded boats across the central Mediterranean route – one of the most deadly in the world – and arriving at Lampedus.
(Vijesti.ba)
