{"id":19651,"date":"2025-03-19T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=19651"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:06:40","slug":"six-dead-40-missing-in-mediterranean-migrant-shipwreck-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/six-dead-40-missing-in-mediterranean-migrant-shipwreck-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Six dead, 40 missing in Mediterranean migrant shipwreck: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Six people died and 40 are missing after a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean, the United Nations said Wednesday, with Italian media reporting the boat went down off the island of Lampedusa.<\/p>\n

“Still too many dead in a new shipwreck in the Mediterranean,” UNHCR’s Italy representative Chiara Cardoletti said on X, adding that the inflatable dinghy had left Tunisia on Monday carrying 56 people.<\/p>\n

“After a few hours of sailing, the dinghy began to deflate and take on water. Six bodies (were) recovered. 40 missing,” she said.<\/p>\n

Italy’s coastguard and financial police pulled 10 people to safety — six men and four women — off the tiny rocky outcrop of Lampione, according to Italian media reports.<\/p>\n

Those rescued said there had been 56 people on board when it left but only six bodies — all male — were recovered from the area, the reports said.<\/p>\n

Survivors said some of the missing had fallen overboard in rough seas, according to the AGI news agency.<\/p>\n

The migrants were from the Ivory Coast, Mali, Gambia and Cameroon, it said.<\/p>\n

After the migrants were rescued, a separate group of 40 migrants landed on Lampedusa after travelling from Sfax in Tunisia in metal boats, ANSA news agency reported.<\/p>\n

There were five landings in Lampedusa Tuesday with a total of 213 migrants, bringing the total number of people in the island’s reception centre to 230, it said.<\/p>\n

Some 8,743 migrants have arrived in Italy so far this year, slightly more than the number who arrived in the same period last year, according to Italy’s interior ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six people died and 40 are missing after a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean, the United Nations said Wednesday, with Italian media reporting the boat went down off the island of Lampedusa. “Still too many dead in a new shipwreck in the Mediterranean,” UNHCR’s Italy representative Chiara Cardoletti said on X, adding that the inflatable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19653,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19651\/revisions\/19653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}