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Around 60 migrants have died in a shipwreck off the coast of Italy

At least 60 migrants died on Sunday when their boat capsized off the Italian town of Crotone in Calabria (south), days after a controversial regulation to rescue migrants at sea was approved.

According to some witnesses, the capsized boat was carrying more than 200 people and had been traveling for four days from Turkey. DW News, German news agency in Spanish.

Italian authorities have recovered sixty bodies from the Mediterranean Sea and managed to save at least 80 lives.

In pictures released by Italian police, pieces of wood were strewn on the beach, with lifeguards walking by as rescuers waited to be transferred to a reception centre.

Sources from the Carabineros (militarized police) confirmed that the bodies of the migrants, including a newborn baby and at least 12 minors, were located several kilometers off the coast of the Calabria region, near the beach of Steccato (province of Crotone). , and the death toll has not been ruled out as reaching a hundred.

“deep pain”

At first it was thought the boat had hit rocks, but survivors told Italian authorities that the engine exploded in the middle of the night, injuring several people and wrecking the boat. Most of the migrants are under the age of 30 and come from Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Italian authorities have been aware of the boat since Saturday, but were unable to carry out rescue operations due to strong waves and darkness.

“This is another tragedy in the Mediterranean that cannot leave anyone indifferent,” Italian President Sergio Mattarella lamented in a statement.

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Government leader Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party (far-right), expressed her “deep sorrow” in a statement and said it was “a crime to send a 20-metre boat with 200 people out to sea”. With the board and bad weather forecast.

Meanwhile, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, urged progress on asylum reform in the EU.

“I am deeply saddened by the terrible shipwreck off the coast of Calabria. The loss of life of innocent migrants is a tragedy,” the German social network wrote on its official profile on Twitter. DZC (AFP, EFE)