The man hospitalized in serious condition in the Crotone hospital has died from the injuries sustained in the shipwreck of the boat full of migrants in front of the Steccato di Cutro beach.
Immediately after arriving at the facility he was taken to intensive care but after noon he passed away.
The confirmed victims therefore rise to 63, with about 80 survivors.
Three other bodies were recovered this morning during the search for the missing from the shipwreck of the boat loaded with migrants that took place yesterday on the beach of Steccato di Cutro.
The body of a man was found on the beach a few hundred meters from the disaster site.
Another body was recovered in the sea, about 400 meters from the shore, by a Coast Guard patrol boat and the third in Le Castella, 3.5 nautical miles from the site of the accident.
More than 100 migrants are feared dead in the shipwreck that took place at dawn on Sunday in Calabria, on the coast of "Steccato" di Cutro.
There is still no reliable number of people who were on board the gulet which left Turkey 4 days ago.
According to some survivors there would have been around 180. For others many more, at least 250. At the moment around 80 people alive have been recovered, of the 80 survivors, 21 have been taken to hospital and one of them is seriously ill.
The number of bodies recovered has risen to 59.
Forty-six were found on the spot, three more on the beach of Botricello, in the Catanzaro area.
Eight more in "Le Castella" of Isola Capo Rizzuto and one in Crotone.
Among the victims there are also twins of a few years and a baby of a few months, less than a year old
.
The twins' bodies were recovered from the sea, while the baby's was found on the beach.
According to some estimates,
about twenty children of various ages would have died
in the shipwreck .
Searches at sea continued throughout the night for the missing persons from the sinking of the migrant boat that took place yesterday in Steccato di Cutro, which has currently caused 59 victims.
The searches are conducted by the Port Authority of Crotone with the help of units of the aeronautical department of the Guardia di Finanza and the fire brigade.
From 6 am the divers of the Coast Guard went into action and the helicopter of the Harbor Master's Office has just come into action.
Two other people were allegedly arrested
, according to indiscretions gathered in judicial circles, with the accusation of having been the smugglers of the boat which yesterday morning crashed against a shoal in front of the coast of Cutro, in the Crotone area, with the consequent fall into the sea of migrants on board.
There are currently 59 confirmed victims of the shipwreck, including many children, and dozens are missing.
Eighty people who survived.
The two people who are said to be in custody are added to the one of Turkish nationality already detained, with the same accusation, yesterday.
THE POINT OF THE ANSA REPORTER
THE INVESTIGATIONS -
An alleged smuggler, a Turkish citizen, was arrested.
Among the wrecks was also found the document of another subject who has not been traced at the moment and who may have fled or be among the missing or victims.
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As long as "criminal gangs control migration routes, people will continue to die. We need safe, orderly and legal routes for migrants and refugees" said Antonio Guterres (ANSA)
THE TORMENT OF THE SURVIVORS
- The approximately 60 surviving migrants brought to the reception center of Isola Capo Rizzuto cry without speaking, wrapped in terrible and silent pain.
They have taken off their wet clothes and are wrapped up in blankets, reunited, staring into space, united by pain and despair.
A woman, who has a broken nose, cries out in despair the name of her son who she can't find anymore than her.
Shipwreck of migrants in the Crotone area, searches continue
WHERE THE MIGRANTS CAME FROM
- The migrants came from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Syria.
It was one of the many journeys of hope that follows the Turkish route, the one most frequented by migrants from countries in the area.
They were on a gulet that could not withstand the force of the sea, particularly rough, and split a few meters from the coast.
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Migrant shipwreck: the boat that left Izmir 4 days ago - Chronicle
Rescuers were unable to reach him due to rough seas (ANSA)
Migrant shipwreck, the difficult rescue operations
"Deep sorrow for the many human lives cut short by human traffickers".
The Prime Minister
Giorgia Meloni says it,
underlining that "the action of those who speculate on these dead today, after having exalted the illusion of an immigration without rules, is self-explanatory".
The government, she adds, "is committed to preventing the departures and with them the perpetration of these tragedies, and will continue to do so, first of all by demanding maximum collaboration from the States of departure and origin".
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Piantedosi: "Huge tragedy, departures must be blocked" - Chronicle
Meloni: 'Don't speculate on the dead'.
Salvini: 'Block the smugglers'.
Governor Occhiuto: 'Where is Europe?'
(HANDLE)
"What has the European Union been doing in all these years? Where is Europe that should guarantee security and legality? What happened to the operations of dialogue with the countries of origin of the migrants?".
These are the questions that the president of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto
, asks in a note
, in relation to the tragedy of the landing of migrants in Cutro.
"All questions which, unfortunately - adds Occhiuto - to date have no answer. And those who stay in the territories, in close contact with everyday reality, are forced to manage emergencies and mourn the dead".
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SeaWatch: "The absence of EU aid is a crime" - Chronicle
MSF: "Desolate lack of relief capacity".
Save the children: "Politics thinks of walls" (ANSA)
MATTARELLA'S APPEAL -
The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, in expressing his "sorrow" over the shipwreck off the coast of Crotone, calls for "a strong commitment from the international community to remove the root causes of the flows of migrants; wars, persecutions, terrorism, poverty, territories made inhospitable by climate change".
It is equally essential - he adds - that the EU finally takes on concrete responsibility for governing the migratory phenomenon in order to rescue it from human traffickers, directly engaging itself in migratory policies.
THE BRUSSELS COMMITMENT
- "I am deeply saddened by the terrible shipwreck off the coast of Calabria. The resulting loss of life of innocent migrants is a tragedy. All together, we must redouble our efforts for the Pact on Migration and Asylum and for the Action Plan on the Central Mediterranean".
The president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen
writes it on Twitter
.
"Member States must step forward and find a solution. Now. The EU needs common and up-to-date rules that allow us to face the challenges of migration".
The president of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola
declares it on social media
stating that "the tragedy that occurred off the coast of Crotone leaves me angry and heartbroken".
"There are plans to update and reform European rules on asylum and migration - adds Metsola -. Member States should not leave them there".
THE POPE'S PRAYER
- "I learned with pain of the shipwreck that took place on the Calabrian coast, near Crotone. 40 dead have already been recovered, including many children. I pray for each of them, for the missing, for the other surviving migrants", he said said Pope Francis at the Angelus.
"I thank all those who have brought help and those who are welcoming - added the Pontiff -. May Our Lady support these brothers and sisters of ours".
