Cutro, the 73rd victim recovered: he is a child

Less than 24 hours from the extraordinary Council of Ministers wanted by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

Di Antonio Fera il 10 Mar, 2023

Cutro, the 73rd victim recovered: he is a child.

The sea at Cutro keep giving back the bodies of the victims of shipwreck of last February 26th.

Less than 24 hours from Extraordinary Council of Ministers requested by the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, on the beach, some people find the body of a child of about 6 years old lying on the shoreline and notify the Coast Guard.

The 73rd confirmed victim of the massacre. Yet another minor – so far the official number would be 29 – which adds to the tragic toll of the tragedy.

At the same time, a small boat with 42 people, including 5 women and a minor, shipwrecked in Italian Sar waters. Once again, there was a risk of a massacre off the coast of Lampedusa. The crew of a Tunisian fishing boat provided first aid. When the Coast Guard soldiers collect the "SOS information" and recover the shipwrecked people, the punt has already sunk.

Due to a strong hypothermia, several people - coming from Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria and leaving Sfax, Tunisia, last Wednesday - are taken to polyclinic.

The news agencies also reveal that it is underway an intervention by the Coast Guard to the rescue of approximately 1.300 people on board boats bound for Italy. Three patrol boats would be operating, about 70 miles south of Crotone, to save a boat with approx 500 people on board.

Other Coast Guard units, however, are apparently providing assistance to two other boats on which they are travelling 800 people located approximately 100 miles from Roccella Ionica (RC).

Therefore, there has been a surge in landings in the last three days: I'm 3mila, to which will be added those arriving after the ongoing Coast Guard rescue operations. The 2023 total rises to 17.592 versus 5.976 in the same period last year: the increase is 194% (Viminale data).

As reported by the EU agency FrontexInstead, in the first two months of 2023, the number of crossings reported by national authorities rose to 28.130, More or less in line with the same period last year.