A massacre. There were 120 on board that dinghy wrecked yesterday morning 45 miles from Tripoli. The story told to the IOM representatives of the only three survivors, rushed yesterday afternoon to Lampedusa on a Navy helicopter in a serious state of hypothermia, is dramatic.
There would therefore be 117 missing in the first shipwreck of the year: no one else besides the two Sudanese and a Gambian, now taken to the Lampedusa hotspot, would have survived. The searches continued throughout the night around the two rafts launched from a Navy helicopter to the shipwrecked, who fell into the sea from the rubber boat 45 miles east of Tripoli, in the Libyan Sar area, without results. The dinghy was not even found, sighted while it was sinking. According to the survivors, there were also ten women on board, including a pregnant girl, and two small children, one only ten months old.