{"id":16592,"date":"2025-08-13T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16592"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:05:20","slug":"at-least-20-dead-in-shipwreck-off-italys-lampedusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16592","title":{"rendered":"At least 20 dead in shipwreck off Italy&#8217;s Lampedusa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At least 20 migrants died after a boat overturned in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, with many more still missing, the UN&#8217;s refugee agency (UNHCR) said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deep anguish for the umpteenth shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa, where UNHCR is now assisting the survivors. It looks to be 20 bodies found and as many missing,&#8221; wrote the agency&#8217;s spokesman, Filippo Ungaro, on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Italian news agency Radio Radicale said the boat had been carrying 97 people when it shipwrecked 14 miles southwest of Lampedusa.<\/p>\n<p>Details remained sketchy but Save the Children Italy said that a baby girl, aged one-and-a-half, appeared to be lost in the shipwreck.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0Aid queues turn deadly as 73 killed in Gaza in one day<\/p>\n<p>RaiRadio1 reported between 12 and 17 migrants missing, and said that 60 survivors had been transported to safety on the island.<\/p>\n<p>The boat, which had already overturned, was spotted from the air by a plane from Italy&#8217;s financial police, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Migrants heading to Italy from North Africa often cross in leaky or overcrowded boats via the central Mediterranean route, one of the world&#8217;s deadliest, and arrive in Lampedusa.<\/p>\n<p>The UNHCR said Wednesday there have been 675 migrant deaths on the central Mediterranean route so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, 38,263 migrants have arrived on Italy&#8217;s shores this year, according to the interior ministry.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 migrants died after a boat overturned in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, with many more still missing, the UN&#8217;s refugee agency (UNHCR) said. &#8220;Deep anguish for the umpteenth shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa, where UNHCR is now assisting the survivors. It looks to be 20 bodies found and as many missing,&#8221; wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}