| Event: | OT Other |
| Number: | 2015-000050 |
| Country: | ITA Italy |
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| Date (YMD): | 2015-1-1 |
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| Information Source: | IFRC |
| Comments: | Since 1 January 2015 more than 24,065 migrants1 have landed in Italy alone. Week after week, thousands of migrants were saved and brought to the southern ports of Italy in Lampedusa, Augusta, Trapani, Messina, Porto Empedocle, Agrigento (Sicily), Reggio Calabria (Calabria) and Taranto (Apulia). Only in one month over 11,395 migrants2 have arrived in Sicily.
On the evening of 18 April, a boat carrying an estimated 800 migrants (UNHCR) capsized about 180 km south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. Only 28 survivors were pulled out of the water. The rest of the people on board are feared dead though only 24 bodies have been recovered and now already buried in Malta. This incident represents the largest loss of lives of its kind on the Mediterranean Sea, occurring less than a week after a similar tragedy at sea on 13 April when 400 people had drowned off the shores of southern Italy. |
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