2026-05-16
A newborn baby died of hypothermia after landing in Lampedusa: she was among 55 other people rescued by a Finance Police patrol boat.
Location: Lampedusa (Italy)
At 4:30 a.m., 55 migrants from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, rescued by a Guardia di Finanza patrol boat, disembarked in Lapedusa (Italy).
Among them were seven women and six minors. The newborn baby, in critical condition, was transferred to the outpatient clinic along with her mother, where doctors pronounced her dead from hypothermia.
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