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MILAN (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard has recovered six bodies
and was searching for up to 40 migrants missing after a rubber
dinghy that departed from Tunisia sank in the central
Mediterranean, the U.N. refugee agency in Italy said Wednesday.
Another 10 people, including four women, were rescued Tuesday
and brought to Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa, where
they were being cared for by the UNHCR.
Survivors said that some 56 people were in the dinghy when it
departed from the Tunisian port of Sfax on Monday evening, the
UNHCR reported.
The boat started to deflate a few hours after departure. The
people on board were from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Guinea and
Mali, the UNHCR said.
The U.N. Missing Migrant Project puts the number of the dead and
missing in the perilous central Mediterranean at over 24,506
from 2014 to 2024, many of whom were lost at sea. The project
says that number may be greater, as many deaths go unrecorded,
with the sightings of so-called ghost ships with no one aboard
and remains of people washing ashore in Libya not associated
with any known shipwreck.
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