VENICE -- The Italian Interior Ministry approved the transferal of 100 migrants Wednesday after a revolt in a refugee centre sparked by the death of a fellow immigrant, the government said.

 A revolt broke out against volunteers Monday in a refugee centre in the Venetian commune of Cona, after a 25-year-old woman from Ivory Coast, waiting for a reply to her application for political asylum, could not be saved by ambulance workers.

 Two buses have already arrived at the former military base in Conetta, that had been turned into a refugee centre housing 1,500 migrants, to transfer the refugees to other shelters in Emilia Romagna.

 Sandrine Bakayoko died on her way to the Piove di Sacco hospital in Padua from pulmonary thrombosis -- according to fellow refugees, help came too late. The emergency services arrived to her lying unconscious in the bathroom of the refugee centre and did not manage to bring her back to life.

 Bakayoko’s death and the tardy response from the emergency services sparked revolt almost immediately within the Venetian refugee centre.

 The 25 volunteers who help to run the centre, including two doctors and a nurse, were initially barricaded by the migrants in various containers without light or warmth, but were let out after a police intervention and that of a cultural mediator.

 Police said the migrants blocked the containers with bonfires and human walls, and would occasionally hit the sides with sticks, while the volunteers were inside. No volunteers were physically hurt.

  The 25-year-old had started feeling bad at around 8 a.m. on Monday morning. She fell unconscious while having a shower, and it was her husband who alerted aid services.

 However, help only came at 2 p.m., despite the Piove di Sacco hospital affirming that the ambulance left immediately after the alarm was given.

The local health service released a report specifying that “at 12.48 p.m. a call for help for a woman from Ivory Coast found lying unconscious in the bathroom by her partner reached the Padua 118 emergency services operating centre” from the Conetta refugee centre.

 “The health-workers, who rapidly arrived on location, promptly began the reanimation sequence and transported her to A&E, where, unfortunately she arrived already deceased.”

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