移民船在意大利島翻船，至少9人死亡

移民船在意大利島翻船，至少9人死亡

The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa has risen to nine, the Italian coastguard says.

意大利海岸警衛(wèi)隊表示，一艘移民船只在意大利蘭佩杜薩島附近失事，目前死亡人數(shù)已升至9人。

Earlier on Monday, it said it recovered two bodies and rescued 22 survivors after the capsizing of a migrant vessel carrying about 50 people.

周一早些時候，在一艘載有約50人的移民船傾覆后，警衛(wèi)隊找到了兩具尸體，并救出了22名幸存者。

Seven more bodies were recovered during an ongoing search for the missing, a new statement from the coastguard said.

海岸警衛(wèi)隊的一份新聲明稱，在對失蹤人員的持續(xù)搜索中，又發(fā)現(xiàn)了七具尸體。

According to the ANSA news agency, survivors told their rescuers that eight children were among those missing at sea.

據(jù)安莎通訊社(ANSA news agency)報道，幸存者告訴救援人員，在海上失蹤的人中有8名兒童。

Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, tweeted that the boat had set off from Tunisia and was carrying "Tunisians and western African migrants".

國際移民組織(International Organization for Migration)發(fā)言人弗拉維奧迪賈科莫(Flavio Di Giacomo)在twitter上發(fā)帖稱，這艘船是從突尼斯出發(fā)的，船上載有“突尼斯人和西非移民”。

Di Giacomo said the first two confirmed victims of the shipwreck were two women.

迪賈科莫說，最初確認的兩名遇難者是兩名女性。

The shipwreck happened shortly after midnight 11km off Lampedusa, a small island about halfway between Sicily and Tunisia.

沉船事故發(fā)生在午夜后不久，距離西西里島和突尼斯之間的蘭佩杜薩島11公里處。