A small boat of six meters overturned near the islet of Lampione, while the patrol boat G 128 of the Guardia di Finanza of Lampedusa approached and was preparing to carry out a new rescue.
Seventy migrants, who ended up in the water, were rescued by rescuers.
A couple, once on the rescue unit, reported that their daughter, a few weeks old, who was traveling with them, had disappeared in the waters.
Research is ongoing.
The vessel, which started from Sfax, in Tunisia, sank.
The small boat, with 72 people on board, would have overturned because, at the sight of the rescue unit of the Fiamme Gialle, all the migrants would have moved to one side.
39 men, 25 women and 8 minors from Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana and Mali ended up at sea near Lampione.
All were recovered and hoisted aboard the patrol boat of the Guardia di Finanza.
Instead, a two-week-old baby girl would be missing.
It is an alarm, and a race against time, in the waters in front of Lampedusa where all the available patrol boats are working to probe the stretch of sea where the 6-meter long boat has sunk.
Mayor of Lampedusa, it is the massacre of the innocents
- "It is the massacre of the innocents. Yet another tragedy announced while Europe stands still. Enough is enough, it is not possible to witness all this helpless. They are children, babies, it is not possible" .
The mayor of Lampedusa Filippo Mannino said it, incredulous and in shock.
Just yesterday, immediately after the fire on the small boat that killed two 10 months and 1 year old babies, the mayor, who has ruled Lampedusa and Linosa for 100 days, had asked the president of the European Commission to go to the island to assist with their eyes to everything that happens.
Just over 24 hours later, yet another drama.
"Enough, I repeat, enough - added Mannino -. They are children, innocent people.
Priest Lampedusa, we are angry and unarmed
- "Nobody should watch or see such things. We are disarmed, disappointed, sad, angry. Feelings that cannot even be deciphered, there is so much bitterness. How can one get used to tragedies of this kind? everything".
This was said by Don Carmelo Rizzo, parish priest of Lampedusa for a year and a month, commenting on the tragedy of the two charred babies who died yesterday morning and the newborn lost today in front of the islet of Lampione.
"The world's attention is, at the moment, focused on the political situation. But how can you watch helplessly in the massacre of the innocents? , but then everything passes; it is another thing to experience these situations - the priest added -.
Yesterday, when the Coast Guard soldiers, burned in rescuers, told me of the charred dead babies they had tears in their eyes.
During the mass I asked the Lampedusans to pray for the little ones of 10 months and 1 year and, many were crying.
Here you never get used to, it is not possible to do so, to these tragedies ".
232 arrived in Lampedusa on two boats, 963 at the hotspot
- 232 migrants arrived in Lampedusa with two different boats, where today's landings rise to 5, for a total of 383 people.
At the hotspot, from where 414 guests were transferred this morning, there are currently 963 people with a capacity of 350 seats.
In the penultimate boat rescued, after the tragedy that occurred in front of the islet of Lampione, there were 123 Bengalis, Sudanese, Egyptians and Pakistanis.
The 10-meter Libyan launch on which they were traveling, rescued by the V821 of the Guardia di Finanza, would sail from Zawia.
In the fifth sea cart, which started from the same Libyan beach and rescued by the Coast Guard patrol boat Cp 319, there were 109 men fleeing from Bangladesh, Sudan, Egypt, Pakistan,
