One of the two migrants transported late on Wednesday evening by air ambulance from Ocean Viking to the San Giovanni di Dio hospital in Agrigento died during the night.
Neither the young man's personal details nor his age and country of origin are known.
According to what was reconstructed by the prefecture of Agrigento, the two rescued migrants were picked up by helicopter directly from the ship of the NGO SOS Mediterranee, without passing through Lampedusa.
The young man had arrived at the Agrigento intensive care unit in critical conditions.
The ship's crew rescued the 25 surviving migrants after the sinking of the dinghy leaving Libya.
According to the stories of the castaways, around 60 people are missing.
The other migrant, for whom medical evacuation was necessary, is instead admitted to the intensive care unit of the Ingrassia hospital in Palermo.
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