(ANSA) - Rome, October 7 - The Italian Coast Guard and Italian finance police rescued 22 survivors and recovered the bodies of nine people, after a boat carrying about 50 migrants overturned Sunday night a few miles off the coast of Lampedusa.
According to an initial reconstruction of event, when rescue patrol boats arrived to rescue the migrants from the boat, all the migrants moved to one end of the boat, causing it to overturn.
Survivors said eight children are among those missing.
The NGO Open Arms said it saved 40 people from a different boat on overnight, including a young boy and a newborn.
Migrant boat overturns off Lampedusa, at least nine dead
About 50 passengers on board, 22 survivors