The authorities did not specify whether the survivors were located in the water or the boat capsized after being spotted by emergency teams, who found that the ship left Tunisia the night before and was headed for the Italian island.
The Italian Coast Guard rescued 43 migrants this Sunday after the boat in which they were trying to cross the Mediterranean sank, although they could not save the life of a two-year-old girl who was traveling with her mother .
Each of the passengers, mostly from the Ivory Coast, Guinea and Cameroon, had paid 2,500 dinars (about 750,000 Chilean pesos) to make the journey, local media reported.
Among them, a two-year-old girl died in a hospital in Lampedusa as she was in serious condition and the doctors were unable to revive her.
In that medical center they are hospitalized several patients with fuel burns and others with drowning syndrome.
This same Sunday, the Italian authorities allowed the disembarkation of another ship, the German Sea Eye 4, which is traveling with 63 rescued migrants, in the port of Livorno (Tuscany), after a week traveling through the Mediterranean.
According to the media, the Government would have authorized this landing since the ship requested it immediately after the first rescue, which would conform to a new protocol that it will try to establish through a decree to regulate the arrival of migrants saved by the NGOs on its shores.
These are the first rescues after the battle between the Italian government and some NGOs at the beginning of November by preventing the people he had rescued from disembarking for days by applying his new anti-immigration policy of letting only vulnerable migrants down.
A rule, devised by the Vice President and Minister of Infrastructure, Matteo Salvini, promoter of the Italian policy of “closed ports” to humanitarian NGOs, allowed, initially, only immigrants who, after a medical evaluation, proved to be in a situation of vulnerability to get off the boat.
Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, marked As the first challenge, the management of migrations through the Mediterranean during the tenth anniversary of the founding of their party, Brothers of Italy
“Italy and France defend their national interests but we both know that it must be find a common solution”, he said after assuring that he has no objection to meeting with the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, to address the issue.
So far this year they have reached Italian shores almost 96,000 people, compared to 63,000 last year, according to the Ministry of the Interior, which has also warned of the “considerable increase” of entries into Italy by land through the Balkan route.
According to official data, 4,101 immigrants were counted between January 1 and October 25, 2022, compared to 1,350 in the same period of 2021, representing an increase of 203.78%.