Fifty-seven survivors of last Wednesday’s twin shipwrecks near Lampedusa will depart the island late Thursday morning alongside other hotspot migrants, totaling 150 people. The group will board the scheduled ferry Sansovino, arriving at Porto Empedocle by evening. Separately, ten of the thirteen bodies held at Cala Pisana cemetery’s mortuary will be transported via an evening motor vessel. Only three victims have been identified; the remainder remain unnamed.
Meanwhile, five migrant boats landed on Lampedusa—the largest Pelagie Island—on Wednesday, carrying 202 people. Groups ranging from 12 to 88 individuals, claiming Bangladeshi, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Egyptian, Sudanese, Iraqi, and Ivorian origins, reported departures from Libya’s coastal cities of Sabratha, Gasr Garabulli, Zawia, and Abu Kammash.