{"id":13625,"date":"2023-02-27T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=13625"},"modified":"2023-02-27T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T10:23:56","slug":"shipwreck-at-an-italian-cost-kills-scores-of-afghan-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/02\/shipwreck-at-an-italian-cost-kills-scores-of-afghan-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipwreck at an Italian cost kills scores of Afghan migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) Afghans were among at\u00a0least 43 migrants drowned on Sunday after the fishing boat on which they were traveling sank off the coast of the Italian region of Calabria<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to local authorities, some 250 migrants were crammed aboard the ship, which broke in two about 20 kilometers from the city of Crotone. Over 100 passengers have been rescued, but at least 70 of the people who were aboard the ship remain missing.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the morning, bodies, including those of children and at least one newborn baby, have washed ashore in the resort town of Steccato di Cutro, according to local reports.<\/p>\n

Although the ship\u2019s port of origin was in Turkey, authorities say the majority of the migrants that have been rescued are from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said the disaster was \u201ca huge tragedy that demonstrates how necessary it is to oppose the chains of irregular migration,\u201d adding that more needed to be done to clamp down on \u201cunscrupulous smugglers\u201d who, \u201cin order to get rich, organize improvised trips with inadequate boats and in prohibitive conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her \u201cdeep sorrow\u201d for the shipwreck and pledged to stop irregular sea migration in order to prevent more tragedies. \u201cThe government is committed to preventing [migrant] departures, and with them the unfolding of these tragedies,\u201d she said in a\u00a0statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is inhumane to trade the lives of men, women and children for the price of the \u2018ticket\u2019 they have paid with the false prospect of a safe journey,\u201d Meloni said.<\/p>\n

Calabrian President Roberto Occhiuto slammed EU authorities for their inaction in addressing the migration crisis and asked \u201cwhat has the European Union been doing all these years?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is Europe when it comes to guaranteeing security and legality?\u201d he asked, adding that regions like his were left on their own to \u201cmanage emergencies and mourn the dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Opposition parties said the tragedy indicated the flaws in Italy\u2019s migration policy. \u201cCondemning only the smugglers, as the center-right is doing now, is\u00a0hypocrisy,\u2033 said Laura Ferrara, a European Parliament lawmaker from the 5-Star Movement. \u201cThe truth is that the EU today does not offer effective alternatives for those who are forced abandon their country of origin; there are no real alternatives to smugglers and traffickers,\u2033 Ferrara said in a\u00a0statement.<\/p>\n

According to the International Organization for Migration\u2019s\u00a0Missing Migrants Project, at least 2,366 migrants lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean last year; at least 124 have been reporting missing in its waters since the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n

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ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) Afghans were among at\u00a0least 43 migrants drowned on Sunday after the fishing boat on which they were traveling sank off the coast of the Italian region of Calabria. According to local authorities, some 250 migrants were crammed aboard the ship, which broke in two about 20 kilometers from the city of Crotone. Over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,978,194],"tags":[12,41,550],"class_list":["post-13625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-migration","tag-italy"],"views":63,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13627,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625\/revisions\/13627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}