The Italian coast guard on Sunday recovered the body of one of two migrants missing following a shipwreck off the Sicilian island of Marettimo on Saturday night.
Migrants disembark from a coast guard patrol boat that arrived at the commercial port of Lampedusa on August 10, 2023. (Photo: ANSA)
Migrants disembark from a coast guard patrol boat that arrived at the commercial port of Lampedusa on August 10, 2023. (Photo: ANSA)
The body of a man aged around 30 was found ten nautical miles south-west of the westernmost island in the Egadi archipelago off the west coast of Sicily.
On Saturday coast guard and finance police patrol boats rescued 11 people on a boat in distress around nine miles off Marettimo and transferred them to the island.
The survivors, from Algeria, reported that there had been 13 people on the boat, which was found without an engine.
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