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November 6, 2025
Legal sources confirmed on Thursday that a Greek prosecutor had extended charges against four additional senior coast guard officers in connection with one of the Mediterranean’s worst accidents: a shipwreck from 2023, which saw hundreds of people drown off the southwest town of Pylos.
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August 24, 2025
A German sea rescue charity reported on Sunday that three young sisters drowned after the rubber boat they were in, along with dozens of migrants, got into difficulty on the dangerous central Mediterranean crossing between Libya and Italy. RESQSHIP reported that the bodies of three sisters aged 9…
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June 30, 2025
A U.N. official reported on Monday that one woman had died, two were missing, and 87 migrants were rescued after a shipwreck near the Italian island Lampedusa. Lampedusa is located between Tunisia and Malta, and the larger Italian Island of Sicily.
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May 28, 2025
On Wednesday, emergency services in the region reported that at least six people were killed when a boat carrying migrants to Spain's Canary Islands capsized as it was being escorted into port. According to the state broadcaster TVE, it was carrying around 180 passengers.
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May 23, 2025
Three sources confirmed on Friday that a Greek naval court had charged 17 coastguard officers in connection with one of the worst shipwrecks to occur in the Mediterranean two years ago. Hundreds of people were believed to have died. The shipwreck that occurred on June 14…
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March 19, 2025
A spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said that at least six migrants had died and forty were missing following a shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa. Separately, the Italian coastguard confirmed that it intervened…
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January 26, 2025
The German NGO Sea Punks reported on Sunday that 17 migrants were rescued from a shipwreck off the coast of the Mediterranean while two children perished. Sea Punks released a press release stating that the rescue occurred in the early morning…
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January 16, 2025
Walking Borders, a group that advocates for migrants' rights, said Thursday that as many as fifty migrants who attempted to reach Spain via boat from West Africa drowned. Moroccan authorities rescued 36 people on Wednesday from a boat which had left Mauritania in January…
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January 9, 2025
Both mother and baby are in good health, according to medical authorities and the regional government. Dr Maria Sabalich said that the pair was being treated by an emergency team at Molina Orosa Hospital in Lanzarote and were under constant observation.
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January 2, 2025
The national guard reported on Thursday that the Tunisian coast guard had recovered the bodies 27 African migrants who were trying to cross the Mediterranean by two boats. The boats went down in the waters near Sfax, which is a popular departure point for African migrants.
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January 1, 2025
The mayor of Lampedusa, an Italian island, said that seven migrants had been rescued but that at least twenty were still missing. Their boat was en route from Libya to Italy when it sank. One of those who survived was an eight-year-old Syrian child, who hoped to join his German-based father.
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October 28, 2024
The national guard reported on Monday that the Tunisian coastguard had recovered 16 bodies from the sea off the coasts of Maloulech and Salakta. This is the latest boat tragedy in the Mediterranean. The bodies were discovered at the weekend, and then again on Monday.
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September 8, 2024
Italian media reported that the Italian coast guard had recovered six bodies near the coast of Sicily. The bodies are believed to be among the 21 people who were missing after a shipwreck involving migrants earlier in the month. Italian Coast Guard said that on Wednesday…
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September 4, 2024
Italian media and U.N. officials reported on Wednesday that seven people had been rescued, and 21 were still missing after a shipwreck of migrants off the coasts of Lampedusa and the Italian island. Reports said that the survivors were Syrians…
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August 4, 2024
The Italian Coast Guard said that two migrants were killed and another was missing when a boat with more than thirty people on board sank 17 miles to the south-east, near the city of Syracuse in Sicily. The authority released a press release…
