There are nine victims of the latest shipwreck which occurred in Maltese SAR waters. Another migrant, among the 23 survivors collected by the Coast Guard, died in the Lampedusa clinic where he had arrived in agony.
Another eight bodies, including the body of a little girl, had been landed shortly before on the Favaloro pier by a patrol boat from the Captaincy. There are still 15 missing from the roll call. Six shipwrecked survivors are currently hospitalized in the outpatient clinic in critical conditions; Another 16, as they recovered, were already accompanied to the hotspot in the Imbriacola district. 46 migrants, originally from Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali and the Ivory Coast, were traveling on the small boat, which sank into the stormy sea, and left Sunday evening from Sfax in Tunisia. According to this reconstruction there would therefore be 15 missing, including 3 minors, and there are now nine victims. The Coast Guard is investigating the cause of the shipwreck.