With the island struggling to care for so many people arriving within a short time, authorities have transferred hundreds of them by boat and aircraft to other temporary shelters for asylum-seekers.
, raising the known death toll in that disaster to 79 migrants, Italian state TV said. A wooden boat that had sailed from Turkey ran into sandbank in rough seas off a beach in Calabria, the toe of the Italian peninsula.
There were 80 survivors, and an undetermined number of people were believed to be missing and presumed dead.that the coast guard should have been sent out to rescue the boat's passengers when the vessel first was spotted farther off the coast.stop launches of people smugglers' unseaworthy fishing boats and rubber dinghiesBut the traffickers behind the smuggling rings continue to operate amid Libya's amid feuding political and militant factions.
The International Organization for Migration and humanitarian groups say passengers whose vessels are turned back by the Libyan coast guard often are returned to detention camps, where they are, including torture, until their families raise enough money for the migrants to set out again by sea. Meloni's government has made it harder for humanitarian organizations that operate rescue boats to carry out many rescues in the waters off Libya, adopting rules that force the vessels to disembark migrants in northern Italian ports, delaying their return to sea.
However many migrants actually set out from Libya on smugglers' boats, it "is a worrisome humanitarian flow becauseThe U.N. migration agency estimates that some 300 people have died this year, or were missing and presumed dead, after attempting to cross the perilous central Mediterranean route.
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