at least 59 dead migrants

Like lost, still under the violence of the shipwreck. A makeshift boat carrying migrants, mostly from Iran, broke as it approached the Italian coast, in Crotone, on Sunday February 26. Initial reports show at least 59 dead, including an infant barely a few months old. “Unfortunately, we continue to find victims. Just now a rifleman took out the body of a two-year-old child”says the mayor of Cutro, Antonio Ceraso.

Suspected smuggler arrested

A new drama as the crooked attemptsee resume. “We had the asylum figures at European level for 2022. It is certain that we are again approaching one million asylum applications. We are approaching the figures that we had known around 2015-2016”, says an analyst. The overloaded boat was carrying between 120 and 200 people. Leaving from Izmir in Turkey, he was to reach the Italian peninsula and the town of Cutro. The raging sea would have thrown the ship on rocks close to the shore. An investigation was opened and a man, a suspected smuggler of Turkish nationality, was arrested.