Forty-six migrants were tracked down on the rocks of Ponente in Lampedusa.
The coast guard also recovered the body of a man.
The 10-metre wooden boat on which they were travelling, after having paid between 4 thousand and 6 thousand euros, set sail from Zuwara in Libya on Wednesday evening.
The group of survivors is made up of Pakistanis and Egyptians.
They too, after an initial health triage, will be transferred to the hotspot in the Imbriacola district where, after the transfer ordered by the prefecture of Agrigento, 15 guests remained.
The migrant who was recovered and already transferred to the mortuary of the Cala Pisana cemetery in Lampedusa should have died following an illness after landing on the rocks.
It will be the cadaveric inspection, already arranged by the public prosecutor's office of Agrigento, to clarify the causes of his death.
The policemen from the flying squad of the Agrigento police station, who are present at the hotspot, will meanwhile listen to the other passengers on the vessel.
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