Coastguard rescues 10 people and search resumes after half-sunken dinghy spotted near islet
Lampedusa, south of Sicily. A search for survivors was taking place off the island on Wednesday after a boat sinking in which at least six people died. Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty ImagesSix people have died and 40 were missing on Wednesday after a boat disaster off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
“The deaths in the Mediterranean of those who set out in search of a more dignified future point a finger towards our own inability to imagine a future capable of giving hope and horizons of life,” said Fr Marco Pagniello, the director of the Italian unit for the Catholic church-run charity Caritas. The tragedy came amid a steady increase in the number of people arriving in Italy after making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from North Africa in search of refuge.
The increase is believed to have been connected to the arrest in Italy of Osama Najim, a Libyan warlord wanted by the international criminal court for suspected war crimes, including abuse of migrants and refugees held in Libyan detention centres as part of the pact. Najim was subsequently released and deported back to Tripoli, causing uproar in Italy.
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