More than 93,000 migrants have up to now made their battle to Italian shores through boat this yr, greater than double the quantity over the identical interval 12 months in the past.

Forty-one migrants have been killed in a shipwreck off the island of Lampedusa in Italy, in line with native media reviews.

The ANSA information company cited accounts from survivors of the shipwreck, who advised rescuers they had been on a ship that had set off from Sfax in Tunisia, which sank on its strategy to Italy.

However, they stated the boat carrying 45 passengers they had been on capsized and sank after just a few hours.

A big wave apparently flipped the boat, inflicting everybody on board to be thrown in to the ocean.

The survivors, three males and a girl from the Ivory Coast and Guinea, added they had been rescued by a cargo ship and transferred to an Italian coast guard boat.

Three youngsters had been among the many useless, they advised ANSA.

They added no different our bodies had been discovered by their rescuers, as they had been picked up a ways away from the wreck web site.

It comes solely days after two boats capsized in the identical space, prompting a rescue operation of greater than 55 individuals.

It shouldn’t be clear if the incidents are linked.

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And then on Sunday, one other 11 our bodies had been recovered from a shipwreck close to Sfax, with greater than 40 individuals nonetheless lacking from that boat.

More than 93,000 migrants have arrived in Italy up to now this yr, in comparison with 44,700 in the identical interval a yr earlier than, the nation’s inside ministry stated.