October 3, 2013 (BBC News) — At least 92 people have died after a boat carrying African migrants sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the island’s mayor says.
More than 140 have been rescued but hundreds are missing, officials say.
More than 140 have been rescued but hundreds are missing, officials say.
Passengers reportedly threw themselves into the sea as the vessel got into trouble and Italian officials were quoted as saying that dozens of people were still in the water.
Earlier this week, 13 migrants drowned while trying to reach Sicily.
In the latest incident, Simona Moscarelli, a spokeswoman from the International Migration Organisation in Rome, told the BBC that “at one point there was a fire on the boat and so the migrants moved, all of them, to one side of the boat which capsized”. Read more…
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