“Alarm Phone is in contact with about 500 people on a boat that left #Libya, called us from the Italian SAR area. We have alerted the proper authorities. Don’t waste time: send help immediately!” She wrote on Twitter Alarm Phone, the telephone service that receives requests for help in the Mediterranean.
A SHIPWRECK IN LAMPEDUSA
Once again, there was a risk of tragedy off the coast of Lampedusa: a small boat with 42 migrants, including 5 women and 1 minor, was shipwrecked late yesterday evening in Italian Sar waters. The crew of a Tunisian fishing boat provided first aid.
When the Coast Guard soldiers picked up the SOS and recovered the survivors, the small boat had already sunk. Several migrants, originally from the Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria, were taken to the clinic because they were suffering from severe hypothermia. The survivors said there are no people missing and that they left Sfax, Tunisia, last Wednesday.
“It was not a tragedy announced, but a tragedy reported. I think it’s hypocritical to say it wasn’t possible to give an answer…. No, we didn’t know or didn’t want to anticipate. In the Church, starting with Pope Francis, many have emphasized this a thousand times: there is no surprise in these events, they are foreseen and very political things. As well as very sad.” Thus Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development and close collaborator of Pope Francishe replies in an interview with Vatican News on the tragic shipwreck of migrants in Cutro, in the Crotone area.
41 ARRIVALS IN ONE DAY, IT’S A RECORD
A total of 1,869 migrants arrived in Lampedusa yesterday, with 41 boats rescued in the waters in front of the island or in the Sar area by patrol boats of the Coast Guard and the Guardia di Finanza. A record never achieved before. Two small boats, carrying 46 and 41 migrants, managed to land directly on land between Guitgia beach and a nearby cove. Since midnight, another 14 landings have been recorded, with around 605 migrants. At the contrada Imbriacola hotspot, from where 750 guests were transferred yesterday, there are currently over 3,000 migrants.
A SHIP IN BRINDISI
In the meantime she entered the Emergency ship in the port of Brindisi Life Support, which on the night between 6 and 7 March last rescued 105 migrants on a broken rubber boat in international waters off Libya. Among them are 59 men, 16 women – one of whom is seven months pregnant – 24 unaccompanied minors and 6 accompanied minors. The youngest is 2 years old. They come from many African countries. The boat they were traveling on, a 12-metre dinghy that was taking on water and was at the mercy of the waves because it had run out of petrol, left Zwara, Libya, at 2 in the afternoon on 6 March. According to reports from the commander, Domenico Pugliese, all the rescued people are in good condition, even if many of them “bear signs of the time spent in Libya on their bodies”.
Source: Ansa
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