LONDON: A 2-year-old girl died hours after being rescued by the Italian coast guard on Sunday along with dozens of other migrants after their boat capsized near the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, Italian news reports said.
The child was in critical condition and was rushed to a clinic on the island, where she died, the ANSA news agency said. The girl had been traveling with her mother.
The coast guard station on Lampedusa said it didn’t immediately have details about the rescue.
ANSA reported the boat overturned about 10 nautical miles south of Lampedusa, which is closer to North Africa than mainland Italy. The news agency said 43 migrants were rescued, all from northern Africa. Three people were treated for injuries at the clinic.
It wasn't immediately clear what caused the boat to overturn.
Tens of thousands of people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa try to make their way into the European Union each year via perilous sea journeys.
The vast majority head to eastern Greek islands from the nearby Turkish coast in small inflatable dinghies, or attempt to cross directly to Italy from north Africa and Turkey in larger vessels. Lampedusa is often the destination of choice for Libyan-based migrant smugglers.
Child dies after migrant boat overturns off Italian island
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Child dies after migrant boat overturns off Italian island
- 43 people were rescued, all from northern Africa
- Lampedusa often the destination of choice for Libyan-based migrant smugglers
Russian and Egyptian commodities exchanges plan closer cooperation
- Russia has been pushing to establish the exchange as part of a broader plan to create new financial instruments
- “In general, all of this can be viewed both as bilateral Russia–Egypt relations,” said Artemyev
MOSCOW: Russia’s and Egypt’s leading commodity exchanges plan to cooperate more closely, with a view to setting up a potential new grain exchange within the wider BRICS group, the head of Russia’s SPIMEX exchange said late on Thursday.
Russia, the world’s largest wheat exporter, has been pushing to establish the exchange as part of a broader plan to create new financial instruments, detach its trade from the US dollar and help Moscow to combat Western sanctions.
“In general, all of this can be viewed both as bilateral Russia–Egypt relations and as the creation of a BRICS exchange,” Igor Artemyev, head of Russia’s SPIMEX exchange, told reporters after the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Egypt’s EMX.
Under the memorandum, the parties plan to simplify exchange-trading procedures and explore possibilities for mutual exchange access for brokers and companies of both countries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that BRICS countries, which are among the world’s largest producers of grains, legumes and oilseeds, could establish such an exchange, potentially expanding it to trade other major commodities.
The plan to create the exchange was approved by leaders of BRICS countries, which include Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Egypt, among others.
