Footage released by the Italian coast guard shows a group of migrants trying to reach safety after their vessel sank at sea. Officials say more than 1,200 migrants reached the island of Lampedusa over the weekend, with at least 20 people reported missing.
during the weekend and some 1,200 people ended up on a tiny Italian island while several were reported missing at sea, the Italian Coast Guard said Monday.
Dozens of the migrants sat Monday morning near Lampedusa’s port, awaiting transfer to the island's overcrowded shelter or eventually to Sicily or the Italian mainland. Last week, Italian authorities used commercial ferries and military vessels to transfer migrants from Lampedusa to Sicily or the mainland — bringing Lampedusa's migrant center below its approximately 400-person capacity. But with the slew of boats arriving from Sunday, the number of migrants there quickly swelled, and authorities were scrambling anew to make arrangement for more transfers off the island.
Although far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni has led a crackdown both on smugglers and on the charity vessels, migrants keep risking dangerous voyages in the Central Mediterranean — departing from Tunisia, Libya and Turkey — in hopes of finding work or relatives in Europe.
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