Twelve children, including a newborn baby, are among at least 59 people to have been killed after a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants from Turkey to Europe sank in the rough seas off the coast of southern Italy.
The wooden boat allegedly ran into trouble at dawn in the Ionian Sea on Sunday near the southern coast of Italy's mainland with around 150 migrants onboard, authorities reported.
The provisional death toll currently stands at 59, but is expected to rise, Italian junior interior minister Wanda Ferro says.
Manuela Curra, a provincial government official, earlier said 81 people had survived the shipwreck, with 20 hospitalised, including one person in intensive care following a huge rescue operation by Italian coast guards and firefighters near the coastal town of Crotone in the Calabria region.
Among migrants first found washed up on the beach was a baby a few months old, according to ANSA news agency.
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At least 58 migrants drown and dozens more rescued as boat broke apart
por Declan Brunning (2023-06-20)
Twelve children, including a newborn baby, are among at least 59 people to have been killed after a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants from Turkey to Europe sank in the rough seas off the coast of southern Italy.
The wooden boat allegedly ran into trouble at dawn in the Ionian Sea on Sunday near the southern coast of Italy's mainland with around 150 migrants onboard, authorities reported.
The provisional death toll currently stands at 59, but is expected to rise, Italian junior interior minister Wanda Ferro says.
Manuela Curra, a provincial government official, earlier said 81 people had survived the shipwreck, with 20 hospitalised, including one person in intensive care following a huge rescue operation by Italian coast guards and firefighters near the coastal town of Crotone in the Calabria region.
Among migrants first found washed up on the beach was a baby a few months old, according to ANSA news agency.