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A two-year-old girl dies in the capsizing of a boat with 43 migrants off the coast of Lampedusa

MADRID, 19 Dic.

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A two-year-old girl dies in the capsizing of a boat with 43 migrants off the coast of Lampedusa

MADRID, 19 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A two-year-old girl has died this Sunday after the boat in which she was crossing the Mediterranean Sea along with 43 migrants sank off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa.

The fatal victim, who was traveling with her mother, had been intubated and transferred to a health center, where she finally died, according to the Italian news agency AdnKronos.

Italian authorities have found the survivors in the water after the boat they were on capsized. Some of the migrants had fuel burn injuries and drowning syndrome.

Among the 43 migrants, originally from the Ivory Coast, Guinea and Cameroon, rescued 10 miles off the coast of Lampedusa, after their boat sank, there are also 9 women and 3 minors, reports the newspaper 'La Repubblica'.

The Prosecutor's Office of Agriento, Sicilian city, has opened an investigation for crimes of complicity in illegal immigration and death as a consequence.

The mayor of Lampedusa, Filippo Mannino, has regretted the event, criticizing the attitude of European politicians towards this problem.

"The massacre continues and the victims are more and more children. It's heartbreaking. (...) What worries me is, above all, that it seems to become something normal. There is a deafening silence around these deaths, you have to shout" , Mannino has declared to Adnkronos.

"The silence in Europe worries me above all, I don't want to turn it into a political issue, but I know the hardships of those who live on this island and the pain of those who disembark there," he added.