A second shipwreck has been reported off Lampedusa after a boat went down on Sunday (November 19), leaving a two-year-old girl dead and eight missing.

The incident late on Tuesday occurred when a metal boat carrying 47 people went down some 28 miles from the coast. A 26-year-old woman from the Ivory Coast died while the other 46 passengers were rescued by finance police.

The boat went down during the rescue operation by finance police.

All the 47 migrants on board -- originally from Guinea, Mali and the Ivory Coast -- ended up in the water. The young woman remained in the water for a few minutes, and when she was hoisted on board by rescuers, she could not be resuscitated, according to authorities.

Finance police said the migrant boat had departed from Sfax, in Tunisia, on Monday evening (November 20).

11 women and 4 minors among survivors, no one missing

The 46 shipwreck survivors included 11 women and four minors. The victim was travelling with her sister. Her body has been taken to the mortuary chamber of the cemetery of Cala Pisana on Lampedusa.

The seven-meter-long metal boat capsized and sank after the group of migrants on board quickly moved to one side of the boat, crying and waving their arms when they saw the finance police's rescue cutter approach them.

Finance police reportedly tried to retrieve the shipwrecked migrants from the water as quickly as possible and asked for the intervention of an aircraft of EU border agency Frontex and a tax police chopper for a search operation to look for potentially missing passengers.

These efforts, however, could not save the life of the young woman, who was already dead when she was taken out of the water. No one is missing, according to survivors.

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The arrival of the 46 shipwreck survivors took to 483 the number of migrants who reached the island in nine separate landings on Tuesday.

Eighty-eight people from Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali, Sierra Leone and Gambia, reached Lampedusa between the night and dawn of November 22. They were rescued from two boats, carrying 39 and 49 people, by the coast guard and the NGO ship Aurora and disembarked after midnight.

All new arrivals were taken to Lampedusa's reception hotspot.

On Wednesday morning (November 22) there were 1,283 people in the hotspot, including 103 unaccompanied minors. A total of 280 people were due to be transferred off the island by passenger ferry to Porto Empedocle on mainland Sicily later in the morning under orders of the prefecture of Agrigento.