Tag: Lampedusa

At least seven migrants, one of them pregnant, drowned after a boat carrying them capsized five miles off the Italian island of Lampedusa early...

Fifteen boats packed with hundreds of migrants landed on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday, and officials said they were expecting numbers...

At least 11 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Sunday, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the...

The Italian coastguard recovered the bodies of 13 women who died after a crowded migrant boat capsized in heavy weather as rescue boats approached...

Nearly a hundred migrants stranded on the Open Arms rescue ship off Lampedusa disembarked on the Italian island on Tuesday night, ending a stand-off...

Eighty-seven migrants on a wood boat were rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa and are due to go to Malta, officials said. Malta armed...

Libya has stopped several boats packed with Africans trying to reach Italy's shores in the past three days, detaining more than 600...

Ten years ago, Eritrean migrant Habtu hunkered down on the vomit-stained deck of a creaking trawler on the Mediterranean Sea, making the...

More than half of the survivors of a shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa last month which killed more than 360...

Libya's navy has rescued 84 African emigrants from a boat that was foundering off its coast, state news agency Lana said, after...

Italian search teams have recovered 194 bodies after a migrant boat sank off the southern island of Lampedusa last week, with divers...

Italian divers searched on Friday for bodies trapped in the wreck of a boat packed with African migrants which sank off Sicily,...

Italian rescue divers have found some 20 bodies underwater near a boat carrying African migrants that caught fire and sank off the...