Overview
- The Italian Coast Guard reports ongoing searches using patrol boat CP271 with the Manta aircraft over the area where the vessel went down.
- Patrol boat CP327 pulled 64 people from the water and brought them ashore overnight to Lampedusa’s hotspot.
- The missing child, estimated at 2–3 years old and from Sierra Leone, reportedly slipped from his mother’s arms during the sinking.
- Survivors included nationals of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea and Sierra Leone, according to initial interviews.
- In a separate operation, Mediterranea Saving Humans landed 40 people rescued by the sailing vessel Safira, including women and minors with dehydration, hypothermia and burns.