The bodies of four migrants have been transferred from Lampedusa to the main island of Sicily. The migrants – including a toddler – died in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean in November.
The body of a two-year-old girl from Guinea was among four bodies transferred by authorities from the island of Lampedusa to their final resting place on the main island of Sicily.
The girl was to be buried at the Favara cemetery, in the province of Agrigento.
Two others – a 36-year-old woman from Ivory Coast, and another person who remains unidentified – were laid to rest in Palma, another town in Agrigento. ANSA reported on the woman's death on November 21, 2023 here.
The body of a 29-year-old Eritrean man was to be transferred to a Muslim cemetery in Messina, a section of the Gran Camposanto Monumentale, at the request of family members.
The little girl who passed away on November 20
The toddler died on November 20 after the shipwreck of a migrant boat that had departed from Sfax in Tunisia.
The boat, with 53 people on board, sank a few meters away from Capo Ponente. Some of the migrants swam to shore. Two managed to reach the coast of Muro Vecchio, where they were rescued by two fishermen from Lampedusa.
At the time there were said to be eight people missing in the shipwreck. The little girl, who was among those rescued by the Coast Guard's sea patrol, was in her mother's arms. Her death was confirmed as the patrol boat was taking her to the port.