Italy | 21 migrants missing after boat sank in Mediterranean Sea - video Dailymotion

21 migrants from Libya were reported missing on Wednesday, after their vessel sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. teleSUR

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00:0021 migrants are reported missing on Wednesday in the Mediterranean after their vessel sank

00:05off the Italian island of Lampedusa.

00:08According to senior official of the United Nations Agency for Refugees, Chiara Cardelletti,

00:13seven migrants were rescued in critical conditions and taken to Lampedusa.

00:18The United Nations official informed that the vessel was drifting half-submerged in

00:22the water and on the point of sinking with the seven survivors on board, all of them

00:28men of Syrian nationality.

00:30The migrants had reportedly left Libya on September 1 with 28 people on board, three

00:35of them minors, of whom 21 had fallen in the water because of bad weather conditions.

00:40Over 3,000 migrants were reported missing in 2023 after attempting to cross the Mediterranean

00:47from North Africa.