Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Italy's navy on Sunday was taking 49 migrants it picked up in international waters to detention facilities in Albania, the interior ministry said, resuming a plan to curb sea arrivals mired in ...
An Italian coastguard vessel collected migrants that were held in reception centres in Albania and transferred them to Italy on Saturday, after a court ruling dealt a blow to Rome's plans to house ...
A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa was overwhelmed Thursday as authorities worked to transfer to the mainland thousands of people who arrived on small ...
On 26 February 2023, a boat carrying migrants sank amidst harsh weather conditions while trying to land on the coast of Steccato di Cutro, a seaside resort village near the town of Crotone in the region of Calabria in Southern Italy. The boat was carrying about 200 migrants when it sank, of whom at least 94 died, [1] including at least 35 children.
More than 40 migrants are feared dead off Italy's Lampedusa after a lone 11-year-old survivor said the boat she was on capsized, a rescue group said Wednesday. ... Italian news agency ANSA ...
On 14 June 2023, an Italy-bound fishing trawler smuggling migrants sank in international waters in the part of the Mediterranean known as the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Pylos, Messenia, Greece. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The boat, named Adriana , [ a ] which had a capacity of 400 people, [ 9 ] carried an estimated 400 to 750 migrants, [ 10 ] [ 11 ...
On 12 April 2023, 33 migrants died and 76 people were rescued after a migrant boat sank off Tunisia's shores off the city of Sfax. [ 2 ] On 18 April 2023, at least 15 migrants were missing and four others were rescued after a boat heading for Italy sank from the coast of Kerkennah.
The number of migrants making the perilous sea journey to Italy has nearly doubled from last year and is on pace to reach record numbers hit in 2016 when most migrants left from Libya.