6 migrants dead, dozens missing after shipwreck near Italy

• The Italian Coast Guard recovered six bodies and is searching for up to 40 migrants who are inactive missing aft a shipwreck successful the Mediterranean.
• So acold this year, 8,963 migrants person arrived successful Italy, according to Interior Ministry figures updated Wednesday, a 4% summation implicit the aforesaid play past year.
• Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's center-right authorities has pushed for agreements with bluish African countries aimed astatine preventing migrant departures.

The Italian Coast Guard recovered six bodies and was searching for up to 40 migrants missing aft a rubber dinghy that departed from Tunisia sank successful the cardinal Mediterranean, the U.N. exile bureau said Wednesday.

Another 10 people, including 4 women, were rescued Tuesday and brought to Italy’s southernmost land of Lampedusa. The Red Cross said they were successful bully information and were receiving intelligence care.

Aircraft from the European borderline bureau Frontex, the Italian seashore defender and others were assisting successful the hunt owed to hard oversea conditions, the seashore defender said.

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Survivors said immoderate 56 radical were successful the dinghy erstwhile it departed from the Tunisian larboard of Sfax connected Monday, UNHCR said.

The vessel started to deflate a fewer hours later. The radical connected committee were from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Mali, the UNHCR said.

The U.N. Missing Migrant Project puts the fig of dormant and missing successful the perilous cardinal Mediterranean astatine implicit 24,506 from 2014 to 2024, galore of them mislaid astatine sea. The task says the fig whitethorn beryllium greater arsenic galore deaths spell unrecorded.

Migrants get connected an Italian Coast Guard vas aft being rescued astatine sea, connected the Sicilian land of Lampedusa, Italy, connected September 18, 2023. (Reuters/Yara Nardi/File Photo)

So acold this year, 8,963 migrants person arrived successful Italy, according to Interior Ministry figures updated Wednesday, a 4% summation implicit the aforesaid play past year.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's center-right authorities has pushed for economical agreements with bluish African countries aimed astatine preventing departures. Speaking to lawmakers this week, Meloni credited the deals with a astir 60% driblet successful migrant arrivals successful Italy past twelvemonth to 66,317 from 157,651 successful 2023.

She said 1,695 radical were dormant oregon missing astatine oversea successful 2024, compared with 2,526 a twelvemonth earlier.

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"What bash these numbers mean? They archer america that reducing the departures, and curbing the traffickers' business, is the lone mode to trim the fig of migrants who suffer their lives trying to scope Italy and Europe,'' she said.

Meanwhile, the humanitarian rescue radical Emergency rescued 35 radical successful the Libyan search-and-rescue country connected Monday and was ordered to bring them to the bluish metropolis of La Spezia to disembark, successful keeping with the Meloni authorities signifier of assigning ports acold from the rescue area.

"This means 3 days much to arrive, and supra each it means to summation the suffering of the shipwrecked people,'' said Anabel Montes Mier, who was moving the mission.