{"id":171560,"date":"2023-02-26T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=171560"},"modified":"2023-02-26T15:08:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T15:08:43","slug":"a-gruesome-sight-boat-shipwrecks-off-italy-killing-dozens-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/a-gruesome-sight-boat-shipwrecks-off-italy-killing-dozens-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A gruesome sight\u2019: Boat shipwrecks off Italy, killing dozens of people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rome: <\/strong>Fifty-eight people died, including some children, when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants crashed against rocks on the southern Italian coast early on Sunday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel had set sail from Turkey several days ago with migrants from Afghanistan, Iran and several other countries, and crashed in stormy weather near Steccato di Cutro, a seaside resort on the eastern coast of Calabria.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.369%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/357ddd601d432610eb1d18838d207c0d8d183086\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\"><\/p>\n<p><span>The remnants of a boat that capsized off the coast of Italy.<\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit:<\/span>LaPresse via AP<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>The provisional death toll stood at 58, Manuela Curra, a provincial government official, said. Eighty-one people survived, with 20 hospitalised including one person in intensive care, she said.<\/p>\n<p>One survivor was arrested on migrant trafficking charges, the Guardia di Finanza customs police said.<\/p>\n<p>Cutro Mayor Antonio Ceraso said women and children were among the dead.<\/p>\n<p>His voice cracking up, Ceraso told the SkyTG24 news channel that he had seen \u201ca spectacle that you would never want to see in your life &#8230; a gruesome sight &#8230; that stays with you for all your life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.126%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/17a6a912e848c4acb5f8a184ad64874916b19daf\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\"><\/p>\n<p><span>Italian Red Cross volunteers and coast guards recover a body after a boat broke apart in rough seas.<\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit:<\/span>LaPresse via AP<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>Wreckage from the wooden gulet, a Turkish sailing boat, was strewn across a large stretch of coast.<\/p>\n<p>Curra said the vessel left Izmir in eastern Turkey three or four days ago, adding that survivors had said some 140 to 150 were on board.<\/p>\n<p>The survivors were mostly from Afghanistan, as well as a few from Pakistan and a couple from Somalia, she said, adding that identifying the nationalities of the dead was harder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of these migrants came from Afghanistan and Iran, fleeing conditions of great hardship\u201d, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports from ANSA and other Italian news agencies, spoke of 27 bodies being washed up on the beach and more found in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Ignazio Mangione, an Italian Red Cross official, told SkyTG24 that very few of the children believed to have been on the boat survived.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed \u201cdeep sorrow\u201d for the deaths. Blaming human traffickers, she vowed to block migrant sea departures to prevent such disasters.<\/p>\n<p>Her right-wing administration has taken a hard line on migration since taking office in October, mostly by restricting the activities of migrant rescue charities. Her tough new laws won final parliamentary approval on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Meloni accuses charities of encouraging migrants to make the dangerous sea journey to Italy, acting as so-called \u201cpull factors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Charities reject this, saying migrants set off regardless of whether rescue boats are in the vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStopping, blocking and hindering the work of NGOs (non-governmental organisations) will have only one effect: the death of vulnerable people left without help,\u201d Spanish migrant rescue charity Open Arms tweeted in reaction to Sunday\u2019s shipwreck.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said it was essential to stop sea crossings that he said offer migrants the \u201cillusory mirage of a better life\u201d in Europe, enrich traffickers, and cause such tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis, the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina and long a vocal advocate for migrants\u2019 rights, said he was praying for everyone caught up in the shipwreck.<\/p>\n<p>Italy is one of the main landing points for migrants trying to enter Europe by sea, with many seeking to travel on to richer northern European nations. The so-called central Mediterranean route is known as one of the world\u2019s most dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Missing Migrants Project has registered more than 17,000 deaths and disappearances in the central Mediterranean since 2014. 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