Survivors of a 2013 capsizing have joined residents of a tiny Italian isle to honor 368 migrants who perished on the anniversary of the offshore tragedy.
Migrants sit on the deck of the Italian supply vessel, Asso Ventinove as seen from aboard the Seabird, an NGO aircraft, after they were rescued from aboard a migrant boat drifting in the central Mediterranean Sea near the Bouri oilfields north of Libya, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. The offshore supply vessel on Saturday rescued dozens of migrants, including women and children, fleeing Libya to Europe on a crowded, wooden boat.
Participants in the memorial tossed flowers into the crystalline waters off Lampedusa, a southern Italian island closer to North Africa than to the Italian mainland. Among those who journeyed to the island were survivors from the capsizing of the crowded boat, one of countless vessels that human traffickers had launched from Libyan shores.Even as the dead were remembered, Italian coast guard boats were bringing ashore some of the more than 600 migrants rescued since late Saturday from more than a dozen boats in the Mediterranean Sea. Those brought to safety from the boats included a four-month-old infant and a sheep, Sicilian media said.
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