More than 200 migrants were lost at sea in the sinking of two ships off Libya, according to the story of nine survivors rescued by the Italian coastguard reported on Wednesday several international organizations.
"They are new, unharmed after four days at sea. The 203 others were swallowed by the waves," announced on Twitter Carlotta Sami, spokesman in Italy High Commission of the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR ), citing a "huge and horrible tragedy."
The nine survivors, who speak French and are probably from West Africa, arrived Wednesday morning on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
According to preliminary information gathered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), they left Saturday in a Libyan beach, aboard two inflatable boats, each loaded with more than a hundred people, who have capsized, probably Monday.
In the same area, the Coast Guard had rescued Sunday in hellish conditions, another party boat from Libya and charged a hundred migrants. Seven of them were already dead cold help arrived, and 22 others had died during the long journey to Lampedusa.
AFP
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