By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) - A five-month-old baby boy has drowned during a rescue operation off Lampedusa, as Italy's southernmost island ...
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All other passengers were rescued, including the baby's mother, a teenager from Guinea, ANSA said. It said the migrants had set off from the Tunisia city of Sfax, a well-known launchpad for sea journeys to Europe. Prosecutor Giovanni Di Leo said 112 vessels arrived on Tuesday, carrying more than 5,000 migrants, far surpassing the previous record of 63 boats registered on one day last month. Meanwhile, migrant landings continued, with about 1,300 new arrivals on Wednesday morning.
Migrants who arrive on Lampedusa are regularly transferred to Sicily to ease overcrowding, but when arrivals surge, this cannot happen quickly enough.
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