An Italian coastguard vessel found
eight bodies including that of a pregnant woman aboard a migrant
boat in Maltese search and rescue (SAR) waters Friday.
The coastguard boat unloaded the bodies at Lampedusa, the
stepping stone island for migrants between Italy and north
Africa.
The big migrant boat had dozens of other North Africans on
board.
Two other people are reportedly missing from the migrant boat.
A woman passed away and fell into the water and her
four-month-old son, who was in her arms, drowned.
It had initially been reported that the baby had died while on
the boat and the mother had thrown his body into the sea in
desperation, but the reconstruction of what happened became
clearer investigators after spoke to more of the survivors, with
cultural mediators helping overcome some initial
misunderstandings.
Furthermore, an man who was reported to have drowned after
throwing himself into the sea after the infant actually died
after passing out and falling into the sea.
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