- Title: Wreck of sunken migrant boat discovered, more bodies found
- Date: 16th October 2019
- Summary: LAMPEDUSA, ITALY (RECENT - OCTOBER 8, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF COASTGUARD PLACING BODIES INSIDE COFFINS LAMPEDUSA HARBOUR WITH BODIES BEING TRANSPORTED VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS COFFINS
- Embargoed: 30th October 2019 10:42
- Keywords: Italy migrants Lampedusa Coastguard shipwreck
- Location: AT SEA OFF THE COAST OF LAMPEDUSA, ITALY AND LAMPEDUSA, ITALY
- City: AT SEA OFF THE COAST OF LAMPEDUSA, ITALY AND LAMPEDUSA, ITALY
- Country: Italy
- Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA002B1CKRIF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Italian Coastguard diffuses pictures showing a shipwreck that has been located yesterday (October 15), where 12 bodies were found at a depth of some 60 meters.
Dozens of migrants have died trying to make the crossing in recent months and Italian authorities said on Tuesday (October 15) they had located the wreckage of a boat that sunk off Lampedusa on October 7.
The bodies of 13 women were found at the time.
Interior ministers from five European Union countries, including Italy, announced last month that they had agreed on a new scheme to distribute migrants saved from the Mediterranean in a deal aimed at relieving the pressure on southern EU states.
Rome had hoped to sign up many other EU partners to the project, but as of last week only two further states had stepped forward. It was not clear which, if any EU countries would take in some of the Ocean Viking migrants.
Italy and neighbouring Malta have long complained that they have been left alone to deal with the hundreds of thousands of migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean in recent years looking for a better life in Europe.
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