2-year-old dead, 8 missing after migrant boat capsizes off Italy's island
STORY: 2-year-old dead, 8 missing after migrant boat capsizes off Italy's island
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 20, 2023
DATELINE: Nov. 22, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:14
LOCATION: LAMPEDUSA, Italy
CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of migrants in Lampedusa
STORYLINE:
Forty-two people were rescued, a two-year-old girl died and at least eight were missing following a migrant shipwreck on Monday night near Italy's island of Lampedusa, local media reported on Tuesday.
The boat carrying over 50 migrants set off from the port city of Sfax in Tunisia.
Some people on board were able to swim to shore, while others were rescued by the Coast Guard and local fishermen.
Among those missing were two little children.
The boat was carrying migrants from the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau and Mali, according to local reports.
On Monday, 11 boats carrying over 800 people landed in Lampedusa, whose accommodation center has a capacity of little above 400.
A vessel with 576 people on board autonomously reached the wa
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