“It’s day of mourning”: at least sixty-two migrants die few meters from Italian coast

Video their overloaded boat would have hit a rock just a few meters from the Italian coast: at least sixty-two migrants died in Curto, in the south of Italy, Sunday, February 26. “It is a day of mourning for the calabria,” said the region governor, Roberto Ochuito.

by video service of the world (with Reuters)

According to the prefecture of Crotone, in the Italian region of Calabria, between 150 and 180 people of Pakistani, Afghan and Turkish origin had taken place aboard a boat to reach Europe. She, confronted with a hectic sea, would have hit a rock and broke on Sunday, February 26. The assessment, always provisional, rises, Monday, February 27, in sixty-two dead. Among them, fourteen children, including a newborn baby.

The governor of Calabria, Roberto Ochuito, denounced “general indifference” caused by these multiplies which are multiplying. This took place only a few days after the adoption of a controversial law in Italy limiting humanitarian ships to one rescue at a time.

/Media reports cited above.