Three people are missing after a
six-metre-long migrant boat sank in waters near to the Italian
island of Lampedusa overnight, survivors said on Wednesday.
The Italian Coast Guard managed to save 44 people from the
shipwreck, including six women, sources said.
They were taken to Lampedusa at dawn.
They said they were from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gambia, Ivory
Coast, Guinea, Mali, Sudan and Algeria.
They said they departed from Sfax, in Tunisia, at 21:00 on
Monday and paid 3,000 Libyan dinar for the crossing.
Photo: A file image of migrants arriving on Lampedusa.
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