Once again, tragedy risked 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.
41 ARRIVALS IN ONE DAY, A RECORD
A total of 1,869 migrants arrived in Lampedusa yesterday, with 41 boats rescued in the waters off the island or in the Sar area by Coast Guard and Finance Police patrol boats.
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.
