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
there, disembark the people and then another five or six day journey down south. that means that rescue vessels cannot be coordinated to distress cases, cannot rescue people in distress, even though they would have the capacity to do so and this is absolutely irresponsible and putting the lives of people at sea at huge risk. nine bodies have been found and two more people are feared dead after a fire at a holiday home hosting people with learning difficulties in france. the cause of the fire in the town of wintzenheim, near the border with germany, is not yet clear. 17 people were evacuated from the building, while at least one person has been taken to hospital. the authorities in portugal say that firefighters have brought a wildfire which has been burning since saturday under control. the civil protection agency announced that the fire is still burning but that it s now in what they described
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