At least 86 people died in the sinking of a migrant boat off the Italian coast on February 26, according to a new, still provisional report announced on Wednesday by the mayor of the town.
"This morning, five more bodies were found, two men, a woman and two children aged around three and eight, nine
," bringing the total to 86 dead, Cutro Mayor Antonio Ceraso said during an interview. a videoconference with the foreign press association in Rome.
"Tragedy"
In addition, "
at least 14 or 15 people are still missing, although we hope that someone was able to survive and immediately lose their traces of the place of the sinking", added
Antonio Ceraso, specifying that the research of possible other bodies continued.
At dawn on February 26, a boat from Turkey with around 175 people on board was shipwrecked a few dozen meters off the coast of Cutro, in Calabria, the poor region forming the tip of the Italian boot.
The maritime authorities, and in particular the coastguards, are suspected of not having reacted quickly enough to reports of the presence of an overloaded ship in the area and the justice system has opened an investigation into the circumstances of this tragedy. .
“But how is it possible that such things still happen today
,” wondered the mayor of Cutro.
"These people leave out of desperation, which means that where they are, they are experiencing an even greater tragedy, rape, violence," said
Antonio Ceraso, calling
"to find a solution to avoid these tragedies".
/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/KMEYMJKESBAZBE4MRBAM4TGHIQ.jpg)
/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/EXJQILQR5QI7OMVRTERD7AEZAU.jpg)
