The search for the missing continues after the tragic shipwreck in Calabria, which took place at dawn on Sunday, in front of the Crotone coast, on the coast of Steccatio di Cutro
.
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.
The number of confirmed victims so far rises to 62, with about 80 survivors
More than 100 migrants are feared dead in the shipwreck
There is still no reliable number of people who were on board the caique 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.
Forty-six bodies 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 for those missing from the shipwreck of the migrant boat that took place yesterday in Steccato di Cutro
continued throughout the night .
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.
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 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.
ANSA agency
Migrant shipwreck: the boat that left Izmir 4 days ago - Chronicle
Rescuers were unable to reach him due to rough seas (ANSA)
ANSA agency
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".
THE ACCUSATION OF NGOs
ANSA agency
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.