A 26-year-old woman from the Ivory Coast died last night in a new shipwreck off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, after what occurred on Monday when a two-year-old girl drowned. The shipwreck occurred while the small boat was being towed to the port of Lampedusa by the Guardia di Finanza and suddenly sank and the 47 immigrants on board, originally from Guinea, Mali and the Ivory Coast, fell into the water, Italian media reported.

Rescue efforts for the migrants were immediately carried out, but When the woman was recovered, she was already dead.. The small boat set sail from Sfax, Tunisia, on Monday afternoon and was one of several boats, with about 350 migrants, that arrived on Tuesday in Lampedusa where about 1,200 people had disembarked on Monday.

A two-year-old girl also died on Monday night and at least eight migrants were missing, according to survivors. The Italian authorities They were able to rescue 43 migrants, women and children among themwho managed to reach the rocks on the northern coast of the island, in Capo Ponente, and two other young migrants were saved by fishermen.

According to the testimonies of those rescued, there were about 50 people on the boat. There are almost 2,200 boys and girls, women and men missing or dead in the central Mediterranean so far this year, 2023 It has already become the deadliest on this migratory route since 2017, according to the new report published today by Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The Italian Ministry of the Interior reported this Monday that since the beginning of the year, 149,751 migrants have arrived on the country’s shores, compared to 93,901 in the same period last year.