At least 26 dead in shipwreck in southern Italy's Lampedusa

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At least 26 people died after a migrant boat capsized near the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday, the coastguard said.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2ch66n42   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00At least 26 people have died after a migrant boat capsized near the southern Italian island

00:07of Lampedusa on Wednesday. 60 survivors were brought ashore, but the death toll is still

00:13provisional as search operations continue. According to the Italian Coast Guard, the

00:17tragedy took place about 14 nautical miles south of Lampedusa as the migrants were traveling

00:23from Libya. A police helicopter first spotted the vessel with bodies in the water and triggered

00:29an urgent rescue mission. Survivors say they left the Tripoli area early Wednesday morning

00:35aboard two boats. When one began taking on water, they transferred to the second vessel,

00:40which later capsized in choppy seas. They also reported that the other vessel had sunk.

00:46In total, about 100 people were on board the two boats, and 60 made it safely to shore.

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