2023-04-30
A little girl has drowned.
Location: Italian SAR area
A four-year-old girl was killed during a migration journey across the Mediterranean to Italy.
The little girl fell into the sea and drowned when the small boat, on which she was together with 34 other people, was attacked by the crew of a Tunisian fishing boat to steal the engine of the 7-metre long iron boat, which left from Sfax.
Her body was not recovered.
The fact happened in the Italian Sar area. The vessel was subsequently rescued by the Italian Coast Guard and the Italian Finance Police.
A Tunisian fishing boat would have approached the boat where the girl and 34 other passengers were traveling towards the Italian coast, hitting the boat in an attempt to steal its engine. In the clash, the little girl would have fallen into the water, drowning and finding her death. At the moment, her body has not yet been found. The other people present on the boat (4 men, 27 women and 3 minors) from Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Sierra Leone told the story of the episode, who also communicated that they had paid 2,000 dinars for the crossing started at 4 on Thursday morning from Sfax, in Tunisia. The 34 migrants then landed at the Favaloro pier in Lampedusa. In the next few hours, the adults will be listened to by the policemen of the mobile team who are on duty at the hotspot, who will try to clarify what happened.
The little girl fell into the sea and drowned when the small boat, on which she was together with 34 other people, was attacked by the crew of a Tunisian fishing boat to steal the engine of the 7-metre long iron boat, which left from Sfax.
Her body was not recovered.
The fact happened in the Italian Sar area. The vessel was subsequently rescued by the Italian Coast Guard and the Italian Finance Police.
A Tunisian fishing boat would have approached the boat where the girl and 34 other passengers were traveling towards the Italian coast, hitting the boat in an attempt to steal its engine. In the clash, the little girl would have fallen into the water, drowning and finding her death. At the moment, her body has not yet been found. The other people present on the boat (4 men, 27 women and 3 minors) from Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Sierra Leone told the story of the episode, who also communicated that they had paid 2,000 dinars for the crossing started at 4 on Thursday morning from Sfax, in Tunisia. The 34 migrants then landed at the Favaloro pier in Lampedusa. In the next few hours, the adults will be listened to by the policemen of the mobile team who are on duty at the hotspot, who will try to clarify what happened.
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