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15-year-old missing at sea after migrant boat tips over

Part of group of around 50 people picked up by Coast Guard

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 24 - A 15-year-old boy is missing after the migrant boat he was on board capsized in waters off the Italian island of Lampedusa overnight.
    The boy was part of a group of around 50 Gambians, Guineans, Malaysians and Senegalese that was picked up by the Italian Coast Guard.
    The seven-metre iron boat tipped over when the migrants rushed to one side of it when the Coast Guard vessel approached, even though they had been told not to do so, sources said. "My brother is missing, where is my brother?," a young man could be heard shouting at the quay at Lampedusa.
    The boat departed from Sfax in Tunisia on Friday, the survivors said.
    A 15-month-old girl was reported missing at sea on Saturday after the migrant boat she was aboard capsized in the southern Mediterranean in similar circumstances.
    The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says that 442 migrants were reported missing in the Mediterranean between the start of the year and March 20, including 367 on the central Mediterranean route between North Africa and Italy. (ANSA).
   

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