Pregnant women dead, missing in Italy migrant boat sinking

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ROME: The Italian coastguard said Monday (Oct 7) it had recovered the bodies of 13 women, some of them pregnant, after a small boat carrying ...

ROME: The Italian coastguard said Monday it had recovered the bodies of 13 women, some of them pregnant, after a small boat carrying around 50 migrants capsized off Lampedusa.

They had rushed to the aid of an"overloaded and already listing boat" shortly after midnight on Monday, a statement said. Italian media reported that the boat had left Tunisia with Tunisians and sub-Saharan Africans on board."We must identify the smuggling networks and encourage actions to make the Mediterranean safer," he said of Monday's disaster, the latest in a series in the central Mediterranean.

 

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