LAMPEDUSA – At around 3:30am on Saturday morning, about 15 miles from the nearest coast, a ship of migrants capsized while attempting to make the crossing from North Africa, a Coast Guard spokesperson has said.
The accident, 15 miles from the coast of Lampedusa – just at the limit of the Italian search and rescue jurisdiction - came at the end of a particularly long day for the Italian Coast Guard due to a high number of attempted landings by migrant ships.









