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Africa: Migrant shipwreck leaves 21 more missing off coast of Lampedusa
A migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean left another 21 missing off the island of Lampedusa, between the African coast and Malta, an Italian coast guard said on Wednesday
The boat “capsized repeatedly, leaving people clinging to the side of the boat as their family members drowned around them,” Nicola Dell’Arciprete, the UN Children Agency (UNICEF) country coordinator for Italy, said in a statement posted online. The survivors, all male Syrian nationals, told rescuers they had embarked from Libya…