Four survivors originally from the ivory coast and guinea gave their accounts to coastguards after being brought ashore. The three men and a woman had initially been rescued by a cargo ship. On monday, according to a recent report from the International Organisation for migration at least 4m refugees drowned between january and march, marking the deadliest three month period since 2017. The report also reveals over the past decade, the Mediterranean Sea has claimed around 25,000 lives. These grim numbers do not fully capture the extent of the tragedy as the actual death toll might be even higher. In recent days there have been a number of rescues from the island and these pictures from the weekend Show Rescue Workers helping migrants in trouble on the lampedusa coast. 0ur rome correspondent sofia bettiza has been following the story. This is not the first tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea this year. As you mentioned, we do know that 41 migrants died, and they were killed in a shipwreck
After being brought ashore. The three men and a woman had initially been rescued by a cargo ship. According to a recent report from the International Organization for migration at least 4m refugees lost their lives due to drowning between january and march, marking the deadliest three month period since 2017. The report also reveals over the past decade, the Mediterranean Sea has claimed around 25,000 lives. These grim numbers do not fully capture the extent of the tragedy as the actual death toll might be even higher. In recent days there have been a number of rescues from the island and these pictures from the weekend Show Rescue Workers helping migrants in trouble on the lampedusa coast. Live now to sofia bettiza whos in rome. Another tragedy in the med, what details do we have from this particular incident . Details do we have from this particular incident . Thats right, this is not the particular incident . Thats right, this is not the first particular incident . Thats right, this
Within hours it was clearjust how much a change is needed. Five people, including a child died when they fell off a boat trying to cross the channel. The french authorities rescued others. Those were the chaotic scenes on a beach near calais. Migrants attempted to launch an overcrowded boat to begin a journey across the channel. Boat to begin a journey across the channel. The french coastguard said there 110 people on board this dingy when it set off from wimereux, just south of calais. The search and Rescue Operations have been continuing all day. A bbc crew that was filming on the beaches, saw the migrants getting into that boat. Reports say that shortly after it went into the sea the engine failed. Andrew harding reports. A skirmish early this morning on a french beach. 0k, werejust running to catch up with some migrants here. The police are trying to stop a small boat from leaving the shore. It turns violent. And the police are failing. The boat is dangerously overloaded. It looks
they were sailing in the sicilian channel, and that s when the boat capsized and sank. apparently the boat capsized because of a very big wave that threw everybody on board into the water. the survivors said out of the 45 people on the boat, only 15 of them were wearing life vests. they were left in the water at sea for several hours before they were rescued by a cargo ship, and brought to the island of lampedusa today. earlier i spoke to lukas kaldenhoff, from sos humanity, a search and rescue organisation operation in the mediterranean about the scale of this issue. it was not only this one shipwreck that occurred in the past days, so from what we know, there have been several shipwrecks, and a total of approximately 130 people who died or went missing in the last days. this is absolutely devastating
and that included three children. they said that they were at sea for about six hours, which is not very long. they were sailing in the sicilian channel, and that s when the boat capsized and sank. apparently the boat capsized because of a very big wave that through everybody on board into the water. the survivors said out of the 45 people on the boat, only 15 of them were wearing life vests. they were left in the water at sea for several hours before they were rescued by a cargo ship, and brought to the island of lampedusa today. thank you for those details. joining me now is lukas kaldenhoff from sos humanity, a search and rescue organization operation in the mediterranean. i know your teams were not in the med this weekend but you are on your way there now, what details are you