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Migrants die attempting to reach Italy

01 November 2003

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On 19 October 2003, a vessel was intercepted by the port authority in the island of Lampedusa to the southwest of Sicily. Fifteen people were rescued, and the dead bodies of 13 more were found. Italian interior minister Giuseppe Pisanu told parliament that the survivors claimed that they had began the crossing 19 days earlier from a Libyan port, with 85 people on board, all of whom originally came from Somalia. This means that 50 other passengers probably died during the crossing. Two days earlier another small vessel was intercepted heading for Lampedusa from Libya in which 25 persons were rescued. One body was found and the survivors claimed that six others had died, including three children. Chamber of Deputies; report by the Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu on the tragic events in Lampedusa, 22.10.02.

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