The bodies of five migrants who died when a boat capsized in rough waters off the southern Lampedusa coast a week ago have been found, Italy's coast guard said on Sunday. This brings the overall death toll to 18.
The ship Ocean Viking has docked in the Italian port of Messina, carrying 213 migrants saved at sea. But at least seven other people were killed after a boat capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The mayor of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa says that boats used by migrants can become a danger to the community and the environment, after they have been abandoned on the island.
An Italian parliamentary committee that monitors the Schengen system visited the island of Lampedusa. It found that the migrant hotspot on the island is on the verge of collapse.
Some of the survivors of the shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa told us their stories. One of them tried to save a little girl, but couldn't. He had to watch her drown.
Some of the women who died in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean on Sunday night were pregnant, according to Italian authorities. More than 50 migrants were on board the boat that capsized off the coast of Lampedusa. At least 17 people remain missing.
An art installation titled "Acqua Passata¿" in Palermo, Italy, is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Lampedusa migrant shipwreck on October 3, 2013 - as well as all 18,000 migrants who have died in the Mediterranean since then.
Authorities in Italy are concerned over so-called "phantom" migrant landings, which have become a daily occurrence on the coasts of Sicily, Sardinia, and Calabria.
The charity vessel's mission continued, as a second operation brought the total number of people rescued to more than 100. The boat is one of many carrying out such missions in the Mediterranean.
At the weekend, dozens of migrants disembarked autonomously on the coasts of the Italian island of Lampedusa, where independent arrivals by sea are becoming increasingly more frequent.
Lampedusa Mayor Totò Martello is criticizing the stall on transferring migrants rescued by the ship Open Arms, who are currently on the island, to Spain. "What's happening in Lampedusa is paradoxical," he said on Facebook. "Now those migrants are all on the island, with the migrant reception center full."
The over 80 migrants who disembarked on Lampedusa are once again in limbo. EU states have not sorted out yet how they will be relocated. One week ago, six countries had declared their general willingness to take the migrants in.