A seven - meter small boat overturned in the waters in front of Lampedusa
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46, including 12 women and 5 minors, were rescued by the soldiers of the V7003 patrol boat of the Guardia di Finanza, but a woman originally from Guinea drowned.
Her body was taken to the Favarolo pier.
The overturning of the boat occurred because at the sight of the patrol boat, the migrants jumped up to ask for help.
The people on board said they were originally from Burkina Faso, Benin, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Gambia, Mali and Senegal and that they left Sfax at dawn yesterday, paying 1,500 Tunisian dinars.
Previously it was learned of the landing of 43 migrants, originally from Burkina Faso and Guinea, who arrived in Lampedusa after being rescued off the island by the CP306 patrol boat of the Coast Guard.
Also on board were 14 women and 4 minors.
They were adrift on a 7-metre small boat and said they had traveled aboard a fishing boat that left Sfax, Tunisia, at 3 am yesterday.
During the night, shortly after 24.00, all 43 were made to go aboard the iron punt, without an engine, and were left adrift.
The punt - always according to their statements - was towed by the fishing boat from the start.