The two-year-old girl who was on the boat that sank in the late morning about 10 miles south of Lampedusa died at the Poliambulatorio di Lampedusa. Her little girl traveled with her mother.
The little girl had been intubated by
Coast Guard doctors aboard the patrol boat.
She was taken to the island health center and she didn't make it.
There are 43 migrants who have been rescued
.
It is not clear, not at the moment, whether the North Africans were found directly in the water or if the small boat they were traveling on capsized later.
The soldiers of the Port Authority rescued them.
They would not be missing, according to what emerges at the moment.
In addition to the little girl who later died after
being rescued, three migrants rescued by the Coast Guard after the sinking of their boat were taken to the Lampedusa health clinic.
They would have severe burns and the doctors are checking and dressing them.
Suddenly, the island is back in alarm and from the Favarolo pier, as well as from the Poliambulatorio, there is a continuous coming and going of rescuers and law enforcement.
Even the mayor of the Pelagie Islands, Filippo Mannino, who has just received Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini on the island, is in constant contact with the police and the hospital doctors.
ANSA Agency
Salvini in Lampedusa, received by the mayor - Sicily
Lega leader Matteo Salvini has arrived in Lampedusa.
His partner Francesca Verdini accompanied him.
Instead, the mayor of Lampedusa and Linosa Filippo Mannino and his deputy Attilio Lucia welcomed him.
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