Fire on the ferry from Lampedusa to Porto Empedocle: 177 people on board, including 150 passengers and 27 crew members
A fire broke out on a ferry on the Lampedusa - Porto Empedocle route: 150 people evacuated, including 83 migrants on board for a transfer from the island.
Fire on the ferry from Lampedusa to Porto Empedocle: 177 people on board, including 150 passengers and 27 crew members
A fire broke out on a ferry on the Lampedusa-Porto Empedocle route: 150 people evacuated, including 83 migrants on board for a transfer from the island.
Last night a fire broke out on the Cossyra ferry which was traveling from Lampedusa to Porto Empedocle. Present on board 177 people, including 150 passengers, including 83 migrants transferring from the island and 27 crew members. A SAR patrol boat from Lampedusa and the Diciotti ship intervened to bring the people on board to safety, making sure to secure all passengers under the coordination of the National Operations Center of the Coast Guard. Nave Diciotti has picked up 147 people, including women and children, who will be accompanied in complete safety to Porto Empedocle. The fire broke out while the liner was 5 miles south of Linosa and appears to have occurred in the unit's engine room.
The vessel is currently still in the open sea and the 27 crew members are still on board. Unable to continue sailing, you will be towed to port in the next few hours. The evacuation of passengers was decided to avoid inconvenience, not for safety reasons. It would appear that there was no real danger to the safety of the passengers.
Furthermore, landings continue in the same waters. Landed 108 migrants with four other small boats, after being rescued from the Italian coast. 108 people were registered on board, including women and children. After the emergency of the last few weeks, there were 8 days of "stop", probably dictated by bad weather. From Friday to today, seven landings have been recorded, for a total of 198 people. It would appear that the refugees are Egyptian, Sudanese, Pakistani, Eritrean and Bangladeshi and that the navigation route originated from Chraf-Mahdia and Sfax in Tunisia and Zwara in Libya.
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