Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 26 Feb 2023, 06:29 am Print
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Shipwreck on Italy's southern coast leaves 30 migrants, including babies, dead
Over 30 migrants, including babies, died after the boat in which they were travelling sank in rough seas off southern Italy, media reports said on Sunday.
The boat was reportedly overloaded.
The vessel reportedly broke apart while trying to land with more than 100 people aboard near the coastal town of Crotone in the Calabria region, reports BBC.
Several bodies were recovered from the beach of a nearby seaside resort.
It is still not clear from which country these migrants were traveling.
The death toll "has surpassed 30," Danilo Maida, spokesman for firefighters in Calabria, was quoted as saying by BBC. "Several dead are reported among the migrants, (and) about 40 survivors," the national firefighters' department wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
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