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Most of the people were rescued by the humanitarian ship of the Open Arms foundation, indicated the NGO with the same name.
This Spanish vessel, which has 263 migrants on board, announced Wednesday night the death of a six-month-old baby from Guinea, which raised the total number of deaths from five to sixs.
“A 6-month-old baby girl has just died as a result of the shipwreck. It has not resisted until its urgent evacuation, which is activated and underway to evacuate the most serious cases”Said the Spanish NGO on Twitter.
The bbow wore was lost since last Tuesday, until a plane from the Frontex operation of the European Union, after hours of searching, told Open Arms its location, according to the newspaper 20 Minutos.
Listen to the sound of the shipwreck we experienced yesterday.
The desperate cry of a mother in search of her 6-month-old baby, amid the chaos.
We recovered him from the sea in respiratory arrest, he went back, but hours later his small body did not resist.
She is the mother of Joseph💔 pic.twitter.com/mYzXLq1jxi– Open Arms (@openarms_fund) November 12, 2020
“The desperate cry of a mother in search of her 6-month-old baby, amid the chaos. We recovered him from the sea in respiratory arrest, he went back, but hours later his small body did not resist ”, explained Open Arms along with the video of the dramatic scene.
The Italian coastguards announced the dispatch of a relief boat, with medics, from the island of Lampedusa to evacuate those migrants in a more critical state.
Before the arrival of the Coast Guard, the total number of migrants in the Open Arms was 263, after having carried out three rescue operations on Wednesday.
“Rescuers are in the water trying to recover about 100 people”, The Spanish NGO’s Twitter account had already reported at noon.
“He gave up the floor of his patera, is what happens when they are abandoned in the sea”He added.
The Open Arms is the only humanitarian vessel currently present in the Mediterranean, after the ships of two other NGOs are held in Italian ports for various reasons.
2020 has been marked by an increase in Clandestine migrant vessels trying to reach Europe via the dangerous central Mediterranean route, which connects Libya and Tunisia with Italy.
More than 20,000 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean in the last 7 years, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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