Dramatic: Mother cries out for her shipwrecked baby, but the baby is drowning | the Chronicle

There is a lot of news from African citizens looking for a better future, and for this reason, They risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach the European continent, even if in several cases the tragedy is present on the spot. In fact, in the past few hours, a video has been leaked in which a mother is seen desperate to save the life of her six-month-old baby, who was in chaos and who he drowned hours after being taken out of the water.

The information indicates that the creature was called Joseph, originally from Guinea Conakry and aged six months, and despite the fact that the baby was rescued and resuscitated by doctors from the humanitarian organization Open Arms, and that he was awaiting an urgent evacuation, could not resist.

The sinking took place on Wednesday when a barge of African migrants and refugees broke in the Mediterranean and left the tragic toll of a 6 month old baby and five dead adults and over 100 survivors, many of them in serious condition, according to the humanitarian organization Open arms.

The Open Arms ship, one of the few humanitarian efforts that continues to patrol the vast central Mediterranean to avoid fatal shipwrecks due to the unstoppable departure of migrants and refugees from North Africa to southern Europe , saved 263 people in the last two days.

In the middle of the afternoon, he reported another shipwreck. “The soil of his patera has given way, this is what happens when they are abandoned at sea”, denounced the founder of the NGO, Oscar camps, quoted by the press agency Europa Press.

Most of the migrants and refugees who tried to stay afloat managed to survive, five died before they could board the aid boat, and Joseph, a baby born just six months ago in Guinea Conakry, Africa West, died shortly after. to be saved.

“He did not resist until his urgent evacuation, which is activated and underway to evacuate the most serious cases. How much anger and pain”, regretted the humanitarian organization which indicated that its medical team is working hard to stabilize the most seriously injured.

The dead of this day join the at least 13 migrants and refugees who have disappeared in the last few hours off the Libyan coast, North African country from which most of these barges and inflatable boats depart.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has estimated that, so far this year, at least 527 people lost their lives in the central Mediterranean region trying to reach the coasts of southern Europe.