In a statement, the coastguard described the two victims as a woman and a child
. Italy’s Ansa news agency earlier identified them as a mother and one-year-old child from the Ivory Coast.
More than 2,000 people have arrived in Lampedusa in the last few days after being rescued at sea by Italian patrol boats and NGO groups amid strong winds around the island. Meanwhile, NGO group Open Arms wrote on social media site X that it had begun disembarking 195 rescued migrants in the southern Italian port of Brindisi, after more than two days of sailing in rough seas.
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