Libya, new shipwreck: 63 missing – World

Another shipwreck still dead at sea. In front of Libya continues the smuggling of migrants and yesterday another cart sank with a new balance of lost human lives which is emerging tragically: 63 missing, destined to extend the sad number of deaths that, just since the beginning of the year, already has a thousand victims . More than 40 people on board were rescued by the Libyan Coast Guard. More lucky than fellow travelers. But for them, while NGOs are being saved (also because of the closure of the ports of Italy and Malta), the future is to end up in the centers of Libyan home. Structures that collapse, which already host at least 10,000 people in extreme conditions of overcrowding and humanitarian emergency, aggravated by the heat of those days. As IOM informs it that, with UNHCR, it is launching a new alarm on the situation. Also because the recoveries at sea, between bailouts and interceptions, increase at a "dramatic" rate: 2,500 people are brought back to earth only the last week of June.

Sunday was reported by UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: off Zuara, in front of Libya's west coast, a boat was overturned and 63 people went missing while only 41 been rescued by the Coast Guard. The scarce information on the new tragedy of migrants just arrived two days after another sinking with more than a hundred missing, who are alleged to be drowned, including a dozen children: only three of them them, less than a year, were found bodies with colored blues always on. Images that gave substance to arid figures of a mbadacre of tens of thousands of dead who for years made the road between Libya and Italy the deadliest in the world. The closing of Italian ports, and the consequent reduction of NGOs stationed off Libya (some blocked, others like OpenArms traveling to Barcelona with 59 on board), also confirmed by the Libyan spokesman of the Guard the immediate impact of a "dramatic increase" in the number of reported migrants from coasters: 2,425 in one week according to a UNHCR survey itself, while IOM estimated about 3,000 in two weeks [19659002] 220 others were recovered in the last hours on two rafts in front of the west coast, the epicenter of the crisis. Like all the others, the migrants were sent to one of the 20 detention centers where, adding the latest official data dating from a month ago (about 7,000 people) and to the minus three thousand in the last two weeks, the threshold is well over. ten thousand. About five are the centers for which there is a large influx. IOM, through a spokesman in Libya, warned that the mbadive influx of migrants retrieved by the Libyan Coast Guard creates an overcrowding problem that "worries us a lot". ". When spaces as narrow as those in detention centers are overloaded, "this has an impact on living conditions," said spokeswoman Christine Petre, leaving only to imagine what that means for instance in the area of ​​toilets. Especially when there is more than 40 degrees of temperature.

Another tragedy at sea: 63 people disappeared at sea today when the boat capsized. 41 people were rescued by the Coast Guard at Zwara #Libya @Refugees @UNSMILibya

– UNHCR Libya (@UNHCRLibya) 1 July 2018