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He was only six months old and died in the arms of the Emergency Doctors aboard the Open Arms. The little boy had been rescued late in the morning in the sinking of the inflatable boat with 120 people on board that went to the bottom 30 miles off the coast of Sabratha but his condition immediately seemed so desperate that the Spanish NGO had requested an emergency medical evacuation. take the baby to the hospital. But the rescue did not arrive on time and the minor died in the afternoon, raising to six the confirmed victims of this announced shipwreck, given that already on Tuesday night the Alarm switchboard had relaunched the SOS that had abandoned the ship that was already at sea since then. two days.
Despite the enormous effort of the medical team, a six-month-old girl died from the shipwreck. We had requested an urgent evacuation for her and other serious cases, to be carried out shortly, but it was not successful. wait. We are happy “, writes Open Arms. A sinking boat, a hundred migrants who end up in the water. Among them also some children. And the volunteers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, the only one now not kidnapped, who jump into the water. sea trying to save as many lives as possible, resulting in a tragedy of six dead.
The photos and images that come from the Mediterranean are dramatic. “Shipwreck. Our rescuers are in the water trying to recover about 100 people including children and a newborn. The ship has collapsed, which is what happens when people are abandoned for days at sea. Let’s continue,” he writes in Twitter Open arms.
“He gave up the bottom of the boat that all these people had been traveling on for at least two days – says Riccaro Gatti, president of Open Arms – we have done our best but we are alone with our limited means, two speedboats and six rescuers. . Surely there will be more deaths, how many we do not know. This shows how necessary a joint European rescue operation of governments and humanitarian corridors is for a safe entry ”.
“All the survivors are on board,” says the NGO, explaining that six people, including a baby and a child, urgently need to be evacuated. Once the count of migrants is completed, Open Arms will ask the Italian authorities for the immediate recovery of these six people and the authorization to disembark. “The rescued migrants are in poor health, some critics and doctors are working to help them,” says Veronica Alfonsi, Italian coordinator of Open Arms. “We still do not know how many are missing at sea. For now there are 5 dead, but it is a temporary toll,” he added as the NGO, with 199 people on board, 111 of whom today saved, heads to another ship asking for help.
The ship had been adrift since yesterday and had been identified by a Frontex plane, which had later given the location of the NGO ship, 50 kilometers north of Sabratha. Shortly after the location, the Open Arms explains, the bottom of the hull collapsed, sending all the occupants out to sea.
According to the Alarm Phone switchboard, which had already given the alert yesterday, there are still boats at risk at sea with 275 migrants on board. Twenty are still at sea after the alert was launched twenty-four hours ago. “We have lost contact. We believe that they are still at sea,” adds the organization. And for two boats with 75 and 100 people in the waters of the Sar of Malta “there is no rescue in sight”.
Also this morning a small boat, with 16 Tunisians on board, managed to reach the port of Lampedusa directly. The group, once surprised by the police, was taken to the Contrada Imbriacola hotspot from where 100 guests were transferred in the morning. The large group was boarded on the scheduled ferry that will arrive at Porto Empedocle in the evening. At the moment, about 730 people remain in the reception structure.
