Lampedusa: new landing: 8 are children. In Tripoli, a migrant killed by coast guards

2019-09-20T08:54:20.390Z

A boat with 27 migrants on board, including 8 children, arrived in Lampedusa this night. He gave the news in a Mediterranean Hope tweet, the refugee and migrant program of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy. "During the night - writes Mediterranean Hope - a wooden lance reached the entrance to the port of Lampedusa independently, where it was intercepted by the finance guard. On board 27 people, including 15 men, 4 women and 8 children. to have left Zuwara, in Libya, and to be from Tunisia, Pakistan and Syria ". Meanwhile, the IOM (World Organization for Migration) reported that a Sudanese migrant who was trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe was killed by Libyan coast guards after being returned to Libya. The man was part of a group of over 100 people brought back to shore yesterday at the Abusitta landing point in Tripoli, but who had resisted repatriation to detention centers. According to the reconstruction provided by the IOM, when people started to escape, gunshots were fired. One bullet mortally wounded the man. The United Nations organization condemned the incident and asked the Libyan authorities to investigate and bring those responsible to justice. "The use of bullets against civilians, unarmed vulnerable men, women and children, is unacceptable in all circumstances and raises alarms about the safety of migrants and humanitarian personnel," commented Leonard Doyle of IOM. "Although he received immediate medical assistance on the spot from an Oim doctor, the migrant died two hours after being admitted to a nearby hospital," he added. The Libyan Coast Guard said it had collected about 500 migrants from the sea in areas near Tripoli over the past six days and brought them back to shore.