A total of 41 people died. in a new reported shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa (south), confirmed by four survivors rescued by the Italian Coast Guard EFE International Organization for Migration (IOM) sources

The rescued, who arrived this morning in Lampedusa, explained to the authorities that the ship had left Sfax (Tunisia) and that after about six hours of sailing, the ship capsized because of the big wave and migrants, including three children, fell into the sea.

Four survivors, two men, a woman and a child, Originally from Côte d’Ivoire and Conakry Guinea, they are in a state of shock. After being rescued at sea by a cargo ship, they were transferred to a Coast Guard patrol boat that landed in Lampedusa, according to local media.

Only 15 migrants who traveled in an unreliable metal boat, They were wearing life jackets but they drowned anyway, IOM intermediaries, who usually work on the island, the closest Italian territory to Africa, added to their account.

For now, it is not clear when the shipwreck occurredif in the last hours or if it happened a few days ago, because the survivors are very confused, the sources explained, while the Agrigento prosecutor’s office launched an investigation into this event.

According to media reports, four have been rescued. were spotted on Tuesday by a European patrol aircraft Frontex borders and, since they were off the coast of Libya, the coast guard of that country was notified, but they did not intervene.

Italian patrol boats set off in search of them, which, upon arrival survivors confirmed to have been rescued by freighterafter which they were transferred by the Coast Guard to Lampedusa.

It was reported last Saturday two other shipwrecks off Lampedusa in which 34 people diedalthough only three corpses were saved during a violent storm, and it was the 57 rescued who explained that their fellow travelers had fallen into the sea.